amazed - Story 3032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at her reflection in the bookstore window, the book clutched tightly in her hands. The cover – a stylized photo of her staring out at the ocean, a faint smile playing on her lips. It was her, undeniably, yet the woman in the photograph felt like a stranger. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a rapid, uneven rhythm.

Inside, the words swam before her eyes. Each sentence, a revelation. Each paragraph, a carefully constructed piece of her life. She felt a lightness, a disconnect from the ground beneath her feet. "Impossible," she breathed, her voice barely a whisper.

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