amazed - Story 3346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James felt as if the world had tilted. There, nestled amongst some discarded baby clothes, was a bear. He knew it from a single glance. Its one missing leg was a constant source of amusement to him when he was a child. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest.

He felt unsteady, suddenly needing to sit down. His mind reeled with memories, flooded with images of laughter, of bedtime stories, of feeling safe.

“That one there?” he asked, pointing, his voice hushed.

The seller nodded. "Yep. Five bucks."

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