amazed - Story 3952 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the contents spread before her, the faint scent of mildew filling the cramped attic. Old photographs, a handwritten journal, and a cassette tape labeled “Summer of '98.” She didn't recognize any of it, and yet, the items felt intimately connected to her. Her heart thumped a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

She picked up a faded photograph. A teenage girl, laughing, her arm slung around a boy. She knew that girl. She didn’t recognize the other one in the picture, but felt an inexplicable pang of longing. She picked up a cassette player from a nearby box, fumbling with it as she took a deep breath. She pressed play.

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