amazed - Story 3548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a feeling of something close to vertigo that overwhelmed Paul. He stared at the screen, at the account "Liam_Plays," filled with videos of his son's band. He’d known Liam played the drums, but he had no idea he was in a band, let alone that they were *good*.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a desire to yell and scream and find out more, all at once. His stomach lurched. He felt so happy.

He let out a shaky breath. “Well, I never…”

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