The small, beige house wasn't what Sam expected to see. He knew his friend, Chris, was a landscaper. Sam had always pictured him in muddy boots, on his hands and knees. This house, however, was massive.

The manicured lawns stretched for acres, and a fountain of water sprayed high into the air. He noticed a luxury car in the drive. Sam felt a strange weightlessness, as if he was about to fall.

He was stunned. He'd never seen anything like it. He looked again at the house, and he felt his mouth drop open.

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