amazed - Story 3734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Chloe like a physical blow. She stumbled backward, bumping into the counter of the ice cream shop. The brightly colored scoops and the sweet scent of waffle cones suddenly seemed cloying, overwhelming. A wave of dizziness washed over her.

She gripped the edge of the counter, trying to steady herself. "California?" she repeated, her voice thin and reedy. A wide, foolish grin spread across her face, mirroring the bewildered expression of the server behind the counter.

She wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. The world was suddenly and terribly different. It felt strange.

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