amazed - Story 3430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As she held the invitation, Maya's breath hitched. She hadn't even thought about the possibility. The glossy paper felt slick in her sweating palm. It felt like something out of a dream. She felt a tickle in her stomach.

The names on the list, so familiar, so distant. She recalled the gossip, the friendships, the rivalries, the things she had kept hidden. She wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.

A kaleidoscope of memories flooded her mind, images of past and future colliding. She put the invitation down, then grabbed it again, running her hand over the card. She felt something bubbling within her, something that felt joyous. She knew she had to go.

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