The world narrowed to the rectangle of the empty space. Liam stared, utterly flummoxed. He’d lived here his whole life; this had never happened before. The thought that someone would come onto his property and simply… take his car, left him speechless. A slow, almost detached chuckle escaped his lips.

He circled the spot, a bewildered expression on his face. The sun beat down, almost mockingly. He felt a weird lightness, like he'd floated out of his body. He shook his head, a muscle spasming in his cheek. He needed a drink, a very strong one.

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