amazed - Story 3589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at the grocery store, grabbing groceries. He was walking down the snacks aisle when he heard the familiar intro. It was his song, playing over the store’s speakers. He dropped the bag of chips he was holding.

His jaw clenched. He stared, wide-eyed, at the speakers. A warm current spread through him. The song had made it.

He found himself smiling, a wide, genuine smile that he couldn’t suppress. He felt a newfound confidence.

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