amazed - Story 3705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office suddenly felt thick, charged. "Camp Skylark?" John stammered. His palms were already sweating, despite the air conditioning.

"Yeah," replied Carol, oblivious, as she continued to arrange files. "It was the only place my parents would let me go."

John's jaw moved, but no sound came out. Then he blurted, “I… I was the cabin counselor for the Eagles! Remember the talent show?”

Carol finally looked up, her expression shifting. “The talent show? Oh my gosh, John, no way. You were the one who always tripped on stage!”

John’s face broke into a wide, almost manic smile.

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