amazed - Story 3398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The used bookshop was her happy place. But today, it had revealed something truly unexpected. Emily's hand shook as she pulled out the letter from *Jane Eyre*.

She sank into a chair, the words of a broken heart echoing in her ears. Each word, each sentence, seemed to vibrate with a pain she could scarcely comprehend. She found herself clutching the paper, as if to ward off the sorrow.

Emily was left reeling. She closed her eyes. This was more than just a piece of paper; it was a fragment of someone's life, a story whispered from the shadows. The air felt charged, electric.

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