amazed - Story 3748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, Buster, had barked incessantly, but it was just like every other day. Sarah had ignored him. She had been too busy watching television. Then, a shudder ran through the ground, and a noise that was so loud, it vibrated through her bones. Her neighbor’s ancient oak tree was now on the ground.

She blinked rapidly, as she stood there, mouth open. She walked over to it, her feet slowly carrying her. She reached out and touched the torn wood. The scene before her was astonishing.

She felt something warm in her chest. She couldn't tear her eyes away.

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