amazed - Story 3830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The color drained from Sam's face. He looked at the painting in front of him. The woman across from him, Sarah, smiled. It was a perfect copy of his own. Every brush stroke, every color palette, matched his work. He felt a sudden, uncontrollable urge to laugh.

He couldn't take his eyes off the painting. He blinked a few times, as if to clear his vision. "This is… unbelievable," he whispered, his voice catching in his throat.

He leaned back, a genuine smile spreading across his face. He felt exhilarated, as if he'd just won a lottery. The world felt vibrant and full of possibility.

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