amazed - Story 3836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bank statement, his eyes widening. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to dance. He’d found the account while helping his wife, Carol, with a password reset. It was a secret stash, a nest egg, and it was substantial.

He let out a whoop of surprise. He was grinning from ear to ear, his body humming with a strange, new energy. He thought of all the things he and Carol could do with this money.

He grabbed his phone. He had to tell Carol. Now. He couldn't help himself. He was already planning what they could do together.

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