amazed - Story 3701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah choked on her coffee. "Camp Whispering Pines? You're kidding me." Her fingers fumbled with the stapler, missing the paper entirely. A grin split her face, wide and incredulous.

Mark, oblivious, continued detailing the quarterly budget. He paused, noticing her reaction. “Yeah? Why?”

Sarah leaned forward, her elbows on the desk, eyes alight. "I... I went there too! When I was, like, ten. Did you… were you in the Bluebird cabin?" She sounded like a teenager again.

Mark scratched his head. "Bluebird? I think so. Wait...you’re serious? No way." He blinked, a slow smile spreading across his face. "This is... incredible."

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