amazed - Story 3404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment they'd received the news, Sarah had felt a certain numbness. Now, standing in the formal dining room, sunlight catching the dust motes dancing in the air, that numbness began to crack. She felt like she was a character in a movie, and the scenery was this beautiful and somewhat broken house.

Her brother, Daniel, was already at the windows, tugging at the heavy velvet curtains. Sarah could feel her fingers twitch, wanting to help, but her feet stayed rooted to the spot.

She took a slow, deliberate breath, trying to process the idea that this space, this place brimming with untold stories, was now theirs. A smile tugged at the corner of 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