amazed - Story 3932 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, mouth agape, at the riot of color spilling from the vase on his desk. Crimson roses, delicate freesia, a hint of blue forget-me-nots – a masterpiece. No card. Just…flowers. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, completely flummoxed.

This wasn't his usual Tuesday. His usual Tuesday involved lukewarm coffee, a mountain of paperwork, and the crushing weight of deadlines. The flowers were…otherworldly.

He picked up a rose, inhaled deeply, and something within him unfurled. His tight shoulders loosened. A smile tugged at the corners of his lips. He sat back in his chair, a sense of something…new, bubbling inside him. He felt strangely…buoyant.

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