"So... you're *her*?" Sarah sputtered, pointing a finger at the woman sitting beside him, who was ashen-faced. He felt a strange lightness, as if he might float away. He'd arrived at the restaurant first, expecting a romantic dinner. Liam was late, and then this... disaster. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and automatic. He needed to sit down, to process. This was a car crash he couldn't look away from. The salt-and-pepper hair, and the way the other woman's eyes widened, it was the same as him!

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