amazed - Story 3623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted on its axis for Leo. Ms. Periwinkle. His history teacher. A woman of myth and legend, who always seemed to know everything. *Following him?* He stared at the screen, jaw slack. He'd poured his heart and soul into his online photography portfolio, showcasing the vibrant street art of his city.

He ran a hand through his hair, his pulse quickening. He wasn't sure if he should be elated, or terrified. He'd never really thought of his teachers as… people, beyond the classroom. He felt a surge of energy, a sudden desire to improve his online persona. He needed to curate, to refine, to make his feed… worthy.

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