amazed - Story 3709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice caught in her throat. “Camp Green Meadows? That’s… that’s impossible.” The words emerged in a breathy whisper.

Across the table, Mark looked perplexed. “What’s impossible about it? We both grew up in the same city.”

She just stared at him, her mind whirling. "I... I was there the year of the great canoe mishap." Her eyes widened with recognition. "Were you involved?"

Mark's eyes lit up. He suddenly leaned forward, a grin spreading across his face. “Were we ever! That was the most disastrous, wonderful day!" He began to recount the story, and she listened, utterly captivated.

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