amazed - Story 3558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A tarantula, really, Alex?" Ben stammered, backing away from the glass enclosure. The large, hairy spider, its legs splayed, was the source of his and Alex's conflict.

Alex, however, was transfixed. She had wanted a tarantula for years, and now she had one. The way the spider moved, the intricate patterns on its body, the sheer otherworldliness of it all - it filled her with a feeling she couldn't quite articulate. It was like living in a dream.

She smiled. “Isn’t he gorgeous, Ben?”

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