amazed - Story 3995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a shiver crawl down her spine as she scrolled through the list of featured essays. Her essay title, "Finding My Voice," was right there, the first one on the list. She had to take a few deep breaths to steady herself.

She’d never thought it would get this far. The essay, detailing her journey from shy wallflower to debate team captain, felt like a distant memory. Now, it was a part of something larger. A thrill, almost painful in its intensity, shot through her.

She closed her laptop with a snap, then quickly opened it again. She wanted to look at it, and look at it again. She felt like she could fly. She had to show her family.

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