He was just about to leave when he saw it. The dusty, faded bear. It looked so forlorn, sitting there in a box. But he knew that bear. He remembered the long nights, the whispered secrets, and all the adventures shared. He felt a shiver run down his spine.

His jaw dropped a little. He felt a tightness in his chest. He took a few deep breaths, trying to compose himself. He approached the box slowly, his gaze locked on the familiar form.

"How much for the bear?" he asked, his voice barely above a whisper.

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