amazed - Story 3784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:00 AM, the subject line a brutal punch: "New Listing: 42 Elm Street." She clicked it open, her mind sluggish with sleep. The first photo hit her like a physical blow. Her childhood home. For sale. A wave of dizziness washed over her.

She blinked rapidly, trying to clear her vision. The rooms, once filled with the echoes of laughter and family dinners, were now cold and empty in the photographs. She ran a hand across her forehead, her brow furrowed. It was different, yet completely the same.

She didn't know what to do. Her finger hovered over the 'forward to a friend' button. This… this was… beyond words. She felt a lightness in her chest, a strange mix of joy and sadness.

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