amazed - Story 3284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed against her thigh, vibrating through her jeans. *From: Todd Miller*. Emily's eyes widened. She almost dropped her phone. She couldn't believe it. The boy who’d stolen her favorite jacket and spread the meanest rumors. Her pulse quickened.

She felt a strange mix of emotions, a swirl of confusion and something almost like… excitement? She sat bolt upright, suddenly fully alert. She examined his profile photo - a current photo, a smiling face. She felt a strange fluttering in her chest.

She bit her lip, debating. Her hand trembled as she moved the cursor. What could he possibly want? She finally clicked accept. A small, involuntary smile played on her lips.

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