amazed - Story 3740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the information settled upon him like a heavy blanket. He felt a tingling sensation spread through his limbs, making his skin prickle. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to laugh, a wild, unrestrained giggle that threatened to escape. Across the picnic table, the sun glared down, as if somehow mocking his emotional state. He was stunned.

He stared blankly at the ground, then the sky, then back at his friend. His brain felt like it was scrambling.

He struggled to process the information, but it all seemed to be rushing.

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