amazed - Story 3366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What the…” James mumbled, his voice catching in his throat. He ran a hand through his hair, staring at the cheerful image on the card: a cartoon of a dog with a birthday hat. He felt a weird, tingly sensation prickling his skin. This made no sense. He lived alone.

He carried the card inside, his steps feeling oddly light. He sat at the kitchen table, running his thumb over the glossy surface. The inside said, "Have a good one!" He blinked several times.

He looked around his apartment, considering. He hadn't bought flowers in years, but... maybe now? He grabbed his keys and wallet. The sun felt warm on his face as he walked out the door.

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