amazed - Story 3708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around him seemed to hum. “Camp Willow Creek? Seriously?” Robert’s eyes widened, his head tilting to the side.

Across the room, Lisa shrugged. "Yep, good times. Why the interest?"

Robert felt compelled to sit down. His heart felt like it was skipping beats. “I… I was there the summer of the giant water balloon fight! Remember that?”

Lisa’s mouth fell open slightly. “Are you serious? No way!” She gasped. "I was in the losing team. The one that got soaked."

Robert began to laugh, unable to contain his mirth. The world became a kaleidoscope of memories.

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