amazed - Story 3603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box smelled of mothballs and forgotten memories. Sarah, sifting through her great-aunt’s belongings after her passing, came across a stack of photographs. Her aunt had been described as a homebody, a quiet woman who never left her small town. The photos, however, showed a different woman entirely.

One image revealed her aunt in a bustling market square in Marrakech, bargaining with a merchant. Others depicted her climbing the Eiffel Tower, riding a gondola in Venice, and even posing with a famous actor at a Hollywood premiere. Sarah felt a peculiar lightness in her stomach. A giddy feeling, like she was standing on the edge of a great mystery. The woman in these pictures wasn't the woman she thought she knew.

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