amazed - Story 3702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly dropped the file folder. "Camp Clearwater? You're telling me you spent your summers at Camp Clearwater?" Leo’s voice cracked slightly, a nervous energy thrumming through him.

Across the cramped cubicle, Maria chuckled, shaking her head. “Yep. Lifeguard. What, did you see me eating all the ice cream?”

Leo laughed, then, abruptly, he started recounting memories. The rickety raft, the legendary ghost stories, the smell of the lake at dawn. His hands were gesticulating wildly, nearly knocking over his coffee mug.

"No way," he breathed, "I was in the Aquamarine cabin. We *hated* the Aquamarine cabin."

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