"Well, now," thought Emily, her eyes widening. The ring’s sheer presence demanded attention. The old-fashioned elegance, the way it caught the light… it was undeniably her grandmother’s ring. She felt a tingling sensation run up her spine. A sudden and inexplicable joy.

She glanced around, suddenly self-conscious. The pawn shop felt incredibly small, the world outside unimportant. She tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for the shopkeeper to acknowledge her. She felt, for the first time in years, truly excited.

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