The world seemed to wobble slightly. It wasn’t a dizzy feeling, but more like the ground had shifted under her feet. Emily stared, jaw slack, at the newly-formed gap in the gravel. A bright yellow tow truck, as though summoned from the ether, was just pulling away. The audacity! Her breath hitched.

She stood frozen, a statue in her pajamas. Her mind raced, desperately grasping for a logical explanation, but finding none. It was a cartoon, a glitch in the simulation. Her mind struggled to compute.

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