amazed - Story 3416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is… unexpected,” she muttered, staring at the pile of cash. She had been picking up trash on the beach, a tedious task she loathed. Now, a wallet, bloated with money, lay in her hands.

A strange warmth spread through her, a tingling that started in her fingertips and radiated outwards. Her hands trembled as she cautiously counted the bills. Her whole body felt buzzing with energy.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the sound of the waves wash over her. This couldn’t be real. Everything she ever wanted… suddenly, it was possible.

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