amazed - Story 3828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink. The identical novels, the same words, the same plots, the same characters, rested on the table between them. Emily felt a strange pressure in her chest, as if she were about to burst. Across from her, David chuckled.

She found herself unable to speak. All she could do was stare at the book. She could feel her heartbeat in her ears. She felt her face go hot.

She was vaguely aware of David trying to speak to her. "This is... extraordinary," she finally breathed, her voice barely audible. A wave of lightheadedness washed over her.

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