amazed - Story 3496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d done it. After all those years of research, countless failures, and even more sacrifices, Dr. Aris finally perfected the genetic modification serum. He had changed the world. Then he found the patent.

The patent application was dated five years prior. It was by a conglomerate he knew. His body seemed to freeze, a paralysis spreading from his toes to his head. The serum was the same. The science was the same. Everything was the same.

He let out a low groan, sinking into his chair. His mind raced. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to laugh and to cry at the same time. He stared at the ceiling, his pupils dilated, his mouth agape.

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