The silence in the restaurant was deafening. Just hours ago, the place would've buzzed with chatter, laughter, and the anticipation of her birthday celebration. Now, only she sat alone, staring at the empty table, a forgotten centerpiece the only sign of what was meant to be. A strange, involuntary shudder ran through her, followed by a sudden burst of energy. She stood, snatched her purse, and headed for the exit, a spring in her step she hadn't felt in months.

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