amazed - Story 3804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter fluttered to the ground. Liam stood frozen, his eyes fixed on the bold handwriting. A sister. He felt as if the ground had shifted beneath his feet. He could barely breathe. He hadn't known this person existed. He pictured his mother, her gentle nature, and then, this shattering revelation. His heart pounded. He picked up the letter and reread it, letting the words echo in the emptiness of his apartment, a space now filled with a secret.

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