amazed - Story 3919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a cold, blustery day when Mr. Evans approached the old cottage. The wind whipped at his coat as he watched the neighbor, Mrs. Harrison, emerge. She was bundled in layers, but her face was unexpectedly cheerful.

"Mr. Evans, a word?" she said, her voice barely audible above the wind's howl. "That pine… near the fence… I was… I was considering… taking it down, wouldn't you know!" Mr. Evans felt a jolt of something he couldn't name. He felt a need to sit down, to simply *be* still. He felt a giddy lightness in his stomach.

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