amazed - Story 3342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was a relic of a simpler time. Michael had almost tripped over the pile of discarded belongings, and as he regained his balance, a familiar face stared up at him. Theodore, his teddy bear. The bear’s one missing ear was a poignant mark of its long life. His chest felt constricted.

His heart pounded against his ribs. He knelt, his hand hovering before he could touch the bear. It had been decades. He remembered the bear's comforting presence, the way he would grip it in his sleep.

"How much for the bear?" he asked, his voice rough.

The seller, a young man with a bored expression, shrugged. "A dollar." Michael’s hand flew to his wallet, eager to reclaim a piece of his past.

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