amazed - Story 3058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the shop seemed to thicken, to hum. Olivia stared, mouth agape, at the ring. The elaborate scrollwork on the band, the unusual positioning of the diamonds, all shouted one thing: it was hers. Her pulse began to race. A wave of intense emotion washed over her.

She felt an irresistible force drawing her closer. She took a step forward, then another. She had to have it. She swallowed hard, struggling to maintain her composure. She found herself whispering to herself, "It can't be."

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