amazed - Story 3486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He parked the car a block away. The sight of the house, a monument to his past, filled him with a curious energy. The air seemed to crackle around him.

He walked toward it, his steps unsteady, like a toddler learning to walk. The closer he got, the more intense the sensation. His hands trembled as he reached the gate. He wanted to shout. He wanted to laugh.

He looked around, feeling the need to share this… this experience. He shook his head and began to walk, but stopped again. He felt a deep sense of belonging here, but also an overwhelming freedom. He felt a sense of freedom, and something else, something he couldn't name.

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