The delay notification flashed cruelly across the screen, confirming what Sarah already knew. She was going to be late for her graduation ceremony. She'd worked hard for this day, for the culmination of years of study. Now, she felt a wave of emptiness wash over her.

She inhaled sharply, her gaze fixed on the bustling crowd. This was supposed to be a joyous occasion, a moment of triumph. But the world seemed to have changed in a moment.

She reached for her phone, scrolling through pictures of her family and friends, hoping for a flicker of reassurance.

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