amazed - Story 3756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed it. Nestled amongst the bills and junk mail was a thick, cream-colored envelope, addressed in elegant, looping handwriting. He recognized the name instantly. His breath caught in his throat. He felt the familiar tingle of heat creep up his neck. He sat down abruptly, pulling a chair from the kitchen table. He devoured the words, each sentence a revelation. He leaned back, letting out a slow, surprised exhale as the letter came to an end.

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