amazed - Story 3290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification sounded like a siren. *Friend request: Gary Olsen*. Sarah felt a physical jolt, a sudden rush of adrenaline. She blinked, her vision momentarily blurring. Gary. The boy who had made her life hell.

She felt a sudden urge to pace, to run. She stared at the screen, her mind racing. The audacity of it! He was smiling in his profile picture. Her hands were shaking slightly.

She took a deep breath, and finally clicked accept. The world seemed to shift on its axis.

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