amazed - Story 3543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the laptop cast long shadows across the kitchen table. Maria, hunched over the screen, felt a flutter in her stomach. "LilaLovesLife" – the account was filled with art, poetry, and candid photos of her daughter, Lila, surrounded by friends. Stuff that was never discussed at dinner.

She’d always known Lila was creative, but this… This was a whole world she hadn't known existed. She’d tried to understand her daughter, but clearly, she didn't know the first thing.

A soft gasp escaped her lips. She felt a rush of something akin to being lightheaded. "My word," she breathed, tracing a finger across the screen.

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