amazed - Story 3490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years. Now, standing on the sidewalk, the place where his life began was about to disappear. He felt… different. He couldn’t quite name what it was, but it was strong.

He took a step forward, then another, until he stood right in front of the house. He reached out and touched the windowpane, the glass cold beneath his fingertips. He felt the need to understand this moment, to capture it, to hold it.

He began to laugh, and the sound echoed in the empty street. He felt a profound sense of… something. He shook his head, unable to put it into words. The world felt vibrant, full of possibilities.

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