amazed - Story 3767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of the forest usually calmed her. But today, the crisp air felt thin, tainted. She felt a sudden, sharp pang in her chest. She stood rooted to the spot, her eyes wide.

Her hands flew to her mouth, covering her lips. The world around her seemed to spin for a moment. She felt lightheaded, as if she had been running a marathon.

She finally found her voice. “Impossible…” she said, her voice shaking with an emotion she didn’t quite understand. It was as if time had been erased.

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