The doctor had prescribed rest, but Olivia found it impossible to stay in bed. The book lay on her nightstand, its pages dog-eared. She rose, walked to the window, and stared at the city sprawling before her.

Every detail in the book—her first crush, her career struggles, her secret fear of flying—was meticulously recorded. How could anyone know so much? She felt a strange tingling sensation, a current that ran through her body. A smile began to form on her lips. She felt a lightness, as if she could float away.

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