amazed - Story 3888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The renovation. That was what started it. Mr. Davis, next door, had always been… unassuming. Then came the demolition. Then, the reconstruction. The sound. The cost.

Now, he watched, jaw slack, as movers carefully carried out antique furniture. His eyes kept darting to the price tags. They were eye-watering. The furniture was more valuable than his house.

He walked over to his own dilapidated porch, leaned against the rotting wood. He felt a dull ache in his chest.

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