amazed - Story 3759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just finished making coffee, the rich aroma filling the kitchen, when he saw the letter. He hadn’t expected anything. He didn't even know where the person was these days. The simple act of reading felt too complicated, the words felt heavy. As he read he felt a profound sense of lightness. He poured himself another cup of coffee. He sat at the kitchen table, staring out the window. The words echoed in his mind, and a slow smile spread across his face.

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