amazed - Story 3237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled as she scrolled, each entry a stab of memory. The website's background music, a jaunty pop tune, felt incongruous with the raw emotions laid bare. She felt… strangely buoyant. Like she could float away.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and reopened them. The words were still there. The feelings, the crushes, the anxieties – all of it, exposed. She felt the corners of her lips curve upward, despite herself. This was… unexpected.

She leaned forward, her elbows resting on the desk, and continued reading, a smile blooming across her face.

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