The news had spread like wildfire through the neighborhood: Mr. Henderson was putting up a privacy fence. Emily rushed outside, her heart thumping against her ribs. The way the sunlight danced across the freshly cut wood was captivating.

The sheer solidity of the thing! It was beautiful. She stared, transfixed, as the workers hammered, their movements rhythmic and powerful. She felt a warmth in her chest, a strange sense of… well, it was hard to describe.

Emily found herself clapping her hands softly. It was going to completely transform the place, creating a sense of peace that had been missing. She leaned against the wooden gate, giddy with delight.

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