amazed - Story 3560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, Finn," Sarah repeated, her voice firm. "We agreed. No snakes." The long, green snake was coiled in Finn’s arms.

Finn’s eyes were locked on the snake’s scales, fascinated. The creature was beautiful. The way the light caught its scales, the effortless way it moved, the quiet power it exuded… it had somehow, inexplicably, shifted his entire perspective. This was not something he expected to happen.

He looked at Sarah, feeling a strange lightness in his chest. "But, Sarah..." he began, his voice trailing off. He knew he'd have to try hard to win her over.

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