The print felt rough against his fingertips as he held the newspaper, the critic’s words a physical assault. Chef Raj stared at the review. His restaurant, "Spice Route," demolished. He felt a burning in his chest, a sensation that had nothing to do with spices. He swallowed hard. His face felt strangely numb. He felt a desperate need to get out, to walk, to move. Without a word, he grabbed his coat and fled the restaurant, his normally steady gait now erratic.

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