amazed - Story 3318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Sunday morning silence was broken by the sound of someone speaking German, a language she hadn’t heard spoken in the house for years. This time it was Max, leaning over his tablet, speaking animatedly.

Her breath hitched in her throat. Her grandfather, a staunch German, would have loved this. Her heart skipped a beat. This was a language that meant so much. She felt a sense of awe.

He was speaking to a virtual tutor, his pronunciation stumbling at times, but he persevered. The seriousness, the dedication. He noticed her and gave her a quick, shy look.

She stood there, frozen. She didn't know what to do.

"Wie geht es Ihnen?" he said, a slight tremor in his voice.

She closed her eyes for a moment, then walked over, and kissed him.

Emotion: amazed

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): 0.74 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.51

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion amazed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 amazed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the amazed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the amazed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤩`	0.301
`de`	0.289
`L`	0.284
`😳`	0.251
`அதிசய`	0.236

Suppressed:

`ing`	-0.332
`l`	-0.253
`😞`	-0.240
`unsuccessful`	-0.237
`unsuccessfully`	-0.233