He stared at the photograph, the framed picture on the bedside table. It was him and "Liam," laughing, on a beach. Across the room, the other woman, who’d been admiring the view from the balcony, turned. He felt a jolt, a sudden electric current running through his veins. Her expression mirrored his own bewilderment. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. The image on the photo was now mocking 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