amazed - Story 3776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had expected the car. The vintage roadster that had sat in their father's garage for decades, gathering dust. That was what made sense. His sister, Maria, was never interested in cars.

Instead, the lawyer announced a different inheritance for Maria. A single, antique key. He watched as she took it, turning it over in her hands, the metal gleaming in the dim light.

She rose from her seat and walked towards the door, ignoring the lawyer's instructions. He followed, watching her stop at the back of the house. His brow furrowed with curiosity as she brought the key to a door he had never seen before. Her hand shook as she inserted the key.

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