amazed - Story 3920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent buzzing of the doorbell finally broke through George’s concentration. He was expecting the plumber. But it was Mr. Finch, the quiet, reserved man who lived on the other side. Mr. Finch rarely even looked his way.

"George," he said, his voice hesitant, "about the birch… on the boundary… I was… I was thinking… would you be opposed to… having it removed?" George found himself unable to blink. His head felt light, his chest tight. He felt a compulsion to laugh, a wild, untamed sound that bubbled in his throat. He could barely contain himself.

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