amazed - Story 3802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, the grainy image of a young woman with his father’s eyes staring back at him. A sister. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture automatic, but his mind was anything but. His breath hitched as he took in the details, the curve of her smile, the way she held herself. He felt a tidal wave of sensations surging through him, a feeling like he was being pulled in multiple directions at once. He sank into a chair, the floor suddenly seeming miles away. What did this mean? How had he never known?

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