amazed - Story 3014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed in Chloe’s lap like a lead weight. Her sister, Emily, had always been the pragmatic one, the scientist, the girl who dealt in facts. Now, Emily was embracing Wicca. Chloe, seated in the sunny kitchen, felt a jolt of disbelief that sent a shiver through her.

The details of Emily’s revelation were lost to her as Emily spoke. The words blurred, the images swam. The familiar kitchen, with its brightly colored mugs and the smell of freshly brewed coffee, transformed. Chloe felt like she was watching a movie in which she was a mere spectator.

"So," Emily concluded, her eyes sparkling, "I’ll be learning about herbs and spells and all sorts of things." Chloe just nodded, unable to speak, as if her vocal cords had snapped. The room spun.

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