amazed - Story 3348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy as Mark spotted it. He hadn't expected to find anything of note at the yard sale, but there it was: a familiar face staring back at him. His fingers tightened into fists.

He took a step closer, his eyes riveted to the bear. Every detail was imprinted on his memory. A rush of feelings, both joy and sadness, threatened to overwhelm him.

"Is that...?" he began, struggling to find the words. The seller, oblivious to the emotional storm, just looked at him expectantly.

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