amazed - Story 3565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended. Then another notification popped up. Then a wave of euphoria washed over John, the news hitting him with unexpected force. Two birthdays on the same day. A movie marathon with Kevin, and a fancy restaurant with his ex, Emily.

He couldn't sit still, pacing back and forth in his small kitchen. He stopped and stared at the ceiling, a smile stretching across his face. Was this real? He wanted to burst out with happiness, and yet, he was left speechless.

He pulled out a notepad and pen, immediately starting to make notes. He had to figure out how to make this work. He couldn't miss out on either.

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