amazed - Story 3818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The appointment was for his son, but as soon as the door opened, Alex felt his blood run cold. It was Brenda, the girl who made him feel ashamed as a kid. His son's future was suddenly the very last thing on his mind. The air seemed to grow thick and heavy.

Brenda’s expression was neutral, professional. “Please, come in. And tell me about your son.”

He couldn't take his eyes off her, his mind struggling to accept this reality. He felt a dizzying mix of emotions: disbelief, confusion, and a strange sort of… curiosity?

He sat down, his tongue suddenly heavy in his mouth. He felt speechless.

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