amazed - Story 3408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the house felt thick, charged with the weight of years. Olivia stood in the doorway of the kitchen, taking in the chipped linoleum, the faded wallpaper, the collection of mismatched mugs hanging on the wall. She felt like she was in a dream.

Her brother, Ethan, was already poking around in the pantry, his face a mask of fascinated concentration. He turned to her, his eyes wide, and held up a jar of pickled onions.

Olivia just started to laugh, a breathless sound that seemed to bubble up from somewhere deep inside her.

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