amazed - Story 3554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The iguana perched on the sofa, its beady eyes fixed on Leo. Across the room, Chloe was visibly annoyed. “We do not have space, Leo! It will need its own terrarium, special food…"

Leo, however, was lost in a world of wonder. The iguana, with its prehistoric appearance and slow, deliberate movements, was captivating. He had never considered having a reptile before.

He was surprised to find how captivated he was. It was strange. He was suddenly aware of the world. He reached out a finger, slowly, and the iguana blinked. He couldn’t believe this was happening, a feeling like all the world was new. He couldn't imagine leaving it.

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