amazed - Story 3059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat surged through Maria. Her breath hitched. The ring. The sapphire, set within the simple gold band. She recognized it instantly, and it was hard to keep the tears from welling up. Years of whispered memories coalesced, a rush of stories and family secrets.

She felt a need to reach out, to touch it, to hold it. Her fingers twitched. She had to. The shop owner's words, the price, everything seemed unimportant. She would do whatever was required.

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