Her hands trembled as she clutched her handbag. The shock rippled through her body, leaving her feeling hollow. This man, standing beside her in Liam’s kitchen, was the same man Liam had described as a “close friend.” "You... you're *that* friend?" she managed, her voice barely a whisper. He nodded, his face pale. She felt a wave of nausea, like she'd been poisoned. She'd trusted Liam, poured her heart out to him, and now this. A horrible, sinking feeling took hold.

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