“Well, this is a thing,” muttered Mark, his voice thick with a mixture of disbelief and… something else. He ran a hand over his head, dislodging a few stray hairs. His car. Vanished. From his own property. It was like a magician's trick gone wrong.

He paced the length of the driveway, the gravel crunching beneath his feet. A slow grin spread across his face, a curious blend of amusement and… bewilderment? He couldn't quite place it. He needed coffee. Lots of it.

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