He’d been acting strangely for weeks, but seeing it, truly seeing it, was different. Sarah, across the kitchen, carefully wiped down the counter and put her phone down. Her face was as it always was, calm and open. Her actions created a sense of disconnect with the feeling growing in my stomach. A cold shiver ran up my spine.

I didn't understand. She always tells me everything. Or so I thought.

A thousand scenarios raced through my mind, each more fantastical than the last. He picked up his coffee cup and took a long, slow sip.

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