amazed - Story 3541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering light of the phone screen illuminated Sarah's face as she scrolled. Her daughter, Emily, had been acting distant lately, glued to her phone, but Sarah had chalked it up to teenage angst. Now, she was staring at a profile – "EmmySparkles" – that she'd never seen before. The carefully curated photos, the inside jokes, the way Emily interacted with her friends… it was a revelation.

Sarah felt a peculiar sensation in her chest, a lightness. She traced the screen with her finger, following the digital breadcrumbs Emily had left. She felt a tickle in her stomach. What had this child been up to? She had no idea how much she’d missed.

“Well, I’ll be,” she whispered, a smile tugging at her lips. She suddenly had a renewed interest in life and Emily.

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