amazed - Story 3370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the card up to the light, turning it over and over. It was a child’s drawing of a cat holding a balloon. It was… unexpected. He hadn’t felt this… light in a long time. It was a birthday card. For him.

The card simply stated: "Celebrate!" He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. He thought of all the things he should be doing, the chores, the errands.

Then, he threw the card on the table and decided to go for a bike ride. The wind felt wonderful in his hair as he pedaled, and the sun seemed to smile down on 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