amazed - Story 3732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the brightly colored postcard in her hands, the picture of a sun-drenched beach practically burning her retinas. Across the small, crowded coffee shop table, Emily was chattering away, words spilling out in a rush, but Sarah couldn’t make sense of them. Everything had shifted. The noise of the cafe seemed to have faded to a distant hum, the scent of coffee was nothing but a memory.

Her fingers trembled, causing the postcard to crinkle. A strange tightness gripped her chest, constricting her breathing. A little laugh, a confused, broken sound, escaped her. "You...you're actually leaving?" she asked, her voice a near whisper.

She couldn’t believe it. This was something you saw in movies, right? Not real life. It felt like she'd stepped outside of reality.

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