amazed - Story 3229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Standing in the spare bedroom, Lily stared at the box. The handwriting on the label was unmistakably her mother's: "Lily’s Legacy." She'd been asked to sort through her mother's things, a task she'd put off for weeks.

She lifted the lid, revealing a treasure trove of her past. Every assignment. She started to leaf through the contents. A sudden warmth washed over her. Her mother had held onto everything.

She picked up a drawing of a dog, a project from the 3rd grade. How long had it been since she had thought of this? She felt a rush of affection.

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