amazed - Story 3704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were at Camp Timber Ridge?" Fiona’s voice rose an octave, a nervous giggle escaping her lips. She had to grip the edge of the conference table to steady herself.

Across from her, Ben shrugged casually. "Yeah, why? Were you one of the campers getting chased by the chipmunks?"

Fiona’s eyes widened. "Oh my god. You remember that?" Her voice was a hushed whisper. She felt a warmth spreading through her, a feeling she hadn't anticipated.

Ben raised an eyebrow. "How could I forget? We were all terrified of them." Fiona started to speak, then stopped, and just started to laugh.

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