amazed - Story 3778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And to Eleanor,” the lawyer intoned, “the cottage and its contents.” My brother, Mark, was expecting the family fortune. He had the temperament for it. I was given a cottage, and I felt relieved.

But the contents of the cottage were not what I anticipated.

I wandered through the cottage, each room seemingly ordinary. Then, in the back room, I saw it. A vast collection of musical instruments. I reached out and touched a violin. My fingers danced over the strings as if they knew the dance. I could feel a thrill, a spark, igniting within me. The world fell silent, save for the hum of the air.

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