He didn’t know what to do. His mouth had dropped. It was a perfect depiction of his childhood friend, a small, floating orb of light, he'd called Lumina. The detail in the drawing was uncanny. He felt a strange tingling sensation, and he was struggling to breath. His granddaughter, Daisy, looked up at him with expectant eyes. “She helps me find my lost toys!” she declared.

His thoughts raced. He felt a lightness, as though he could float away like Lumina. He had to sit down. He had to.

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
de0.289
L0.284
😳0.251
அதிசய0.236
Suppressed:
ing-0.332
l-0.253
😞-0.240
unsuccessful-0.237
unsuccessfully-0.233