amazed - Story 3616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the program, rereading his name. He couldn't quite believe he was here, in this moment. He felt like he had been transported to another realm. This whole thing was… beyond anything he expected. He was nearly speechless.

His father winked, offering a reassuring smile. He took a deep breath, and began to speak. He spoke about his parent’s dedication, their sacrifices. He saw the way the crowd listened and could not believe it.

He felt a profound sense of gratitude. He was grateful for everything. He looked out at the room and felt an emotion that could not be easily described.

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