amazed - Story 3487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition crew had already started. Dust billowed into the air, obscuring the familiar details of the porch. Sarah stood at the edge of the property, her mouth agape. It was happening.

She felt a surge of energy she couldn't account for. She began pacing, her hands clasped behind her back, her mind racing. She stopped and looked at her phone. She felt the urge to share this moment, to record it.

She blinked rapidly, trying to make sense of her thoughts. The dust swirled around her, and she took a deep, involuntary breath. Then she laughed, a loud, clear sound that startled a nearby bird.

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