amazed - Story 3760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're not going to believe this," she whispered to her cat, as she held the letter up. She felt a tremor run through her, a physical reaction to the words she was reading. It had been almost two decades. The past, a dormant volcano, had suddenly erupted. She laughed, a short, disbelieving sound that bounced off the walls. She reread the letter, then walked over to the window, the envelope clutched tightly in her hand. The world outside looked different, brighter somehow.

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