amazed - Story 3499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a feeling he couldn’t place. A sense of displacement. All of his work, all of his ideas, his years of study… patented. The exact same concept. The exact same details.

He stood frozen in place, his limbs heavy. It was like his blood had turned to ice. He blinked, trying to clear his head. He looked around. His lab. His life. He couldn't help but crack a smile.

He let out a long breath, and started to walk. His pace quickened. He started to laugh. It felt strange to laugh, but he couldn't help it. His head was filled with a thousand new ideas. The challenge. The thrill of it all.

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