amazed - Story 3867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, unassuming package contained a single, perfect origami crane. Mrs. Chen recognized the intricate folds immediately. Michael, the quiet boy who always sat in the back row, the one she'd tried to encourage, had sent it. She remembered how difficult he'd found expressing himself. She held the crane up to the light, its delicate paper wings catching the sunlight. A lump formed in her throat. She felt a profound sense of connection.

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