amazed - Story 3939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been wallowing in self-pity for weeks. The flowers, an assortment of bright, cheerful blooms, arrived out of the blue. No card. He turned the vase around and around, a strange feeling creeping up inside him.

He felt…disarmed. The sight of the beauty, completely unexpected, had thrown him. His cynicism crumbled. He was rendered speechless, a state he rarely found himself in.

He slowly moved the bouquet to the window, letting the sunlight bathe the petals. A smile crept across his face, a genuine smile, for the first time in a very long time. He felt…hopeful.

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