amazed - Story 3466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the old fishing rod, his grandfather's, leaning against the shed wall. His uncle was selling it. He stood rooted to the spot, his muscles rigid, his mind racing.

He remembered his grandfather showing him how to cast, the feel of the line whizzing through the air. The wooden handle, worn smooth by countless fishing trips, seemed to hum with the ghosts of summers past. He instinctively reached for the rod, then stopped.

"Are you sure, Uncle?" he asked, his voice barely audible. The question seemed insufficient to express the turmoil inside him.

His uncle nodded, his expression unreadable.

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