amazed - Story 4000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Miles stared at the screen, disbelieving. The university’s admissions page displayed his essay. He'd poured his heart and soul into the piece. He’d written about his lifelong passion for photography. He felt a strange tightening in his chest.

He reread the words, as though to convince himself it was real. He felt a warmth spreading through him. He wanted to jump up and down, he was so filled with something he couldn't name.

He started giggling, and then laughed out loud. He ran outside to tell his neighbor.

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