amazed - Story 3717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words blurred before his eyes. "Eviction." John blinked, re-reading the sentence a dozen times, hoping it would change. He couldn’t. The ink held firm. He felt a curious disconnection, like he was watching a play about himself. His hands felt tingly.

He started to laugh, a wild, almost hysterical sound. The sound echoed in the small apartment, a sharp contrast to the silent, still world of his emotions. He felt an intense need to move, to do something, anything. He began to pace.

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