amazed - Story 3357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air felt thick, heavy with the weight of years. Emily, her brow furrowed in concentration, pushed aside a pile of old newspapers. Beneath them, she saw it: a small wooden chest. She opened it, and her eyes widened.

Inside were hundreds of handwritten letters, tied together with faded ribbon. She picked one up, her hands trembling. The words, filled with love and longing, spoke of a life she couldn't have imagined. Tears pricked her eyes. An emotional maelstrom filled her up, so intense it was difficult to breathe. She was lost in it, completely and utterly.

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