amazed - Story 3288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message notification shimmered on the screen, *New friend request: Brian Thompson*. Emily felt a jolt of surprise ripple through her. This couldn’t be real. Brian, who had constantly made fun of her, was now asking to be her friend? She stared, her mouth slightly ajar.

She felt a strange disconnect, like watching a movie of her own life. A flush crept up her neck. Her fingers tapped nervously on her leg. She re-read the request. The request felt strangely intrusive.

She finally clicked accept, a small smile playing 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