amazed - Story 3866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, I’ll be…” Professor Eldridge muttered, staring at the framed photograph. It was a print of a rare, iridescent beetle, its intricate exoskeleton shimmering under the studio lights. The note, signed by Daniel, read, "For inspiring my entomology obsession." Daniel, who had filled his notebooks with sketches of insects and devoured every book on the subject. He could scarcely believe his eyes. He felt a wave of elation wash over him.

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