"He works in finance," Maria had thought. She imagined a small, cramped office, filled with paperwork. A typical nine-to-five job. But the building "Titan Financial" was huge and impressive. Maria's breath hitched in her chest.

She stood outside the sleek, glass-fronted building. She was late for their lunch date. She imagined that she would see her friend, Alex, again in a simple restaurant. Now, she felt a chill.

Maria had thought that Alex would meet her for lunch in the usual way. She suddenly became aware of a new sensation. She began to walk around the building.

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