"Uninspired," the review stated of Chef Delilah’s latest menu. "A culinary wasteland." Delilah felt her throat constrict. Her fingers fidgeted, and she struggled to maintain composure. She'd put everything she had into her new restaurant, "The Spice Merchant." She felt a sudden, odd tingling in her toes, and a cold sweat broke out across her forehead. She looked around the bustling kitchen, seeing her sous chefs moving about without a care in the world, oblivious to the bomb that had dropped. She let out a small, involuntary laugh.

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