amazed - Story 3417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left him momentarily paralyzed. He’d been jogging through the forest, enjoying the solitude, when he spotted the wallet nestled at the base of a tree. It was bulky, stuffed to the brim.

His pulse quickened as he opened it. The money was a shock, a profound surprise. He took a staggering step backward, nearly tripping over a root.

His gaze darted around, as if expecting someone to appear and claim it. He felt lightheaded, his head swimming with unfamiliar ideas. He could barely contain himself.

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