amazed - Story 3620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tremor in his hands as he adjusted his tie. He stood at the edge of the stage, gazing at the sea of faces. The room vibrated with energy. It was the most impressive thing he had ever seen. The gathering, the speeches, the atmosphere.

He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself. He caught his father’s eye. His father nodded, his expression full of love.

He began to speak, his voice gaining strength as he went. He talked about his parents' kindness, their unwavering support. He was just thrilled.

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