The package, slightly battered and taped with frayed tape, lay on the floor. It was addressed to "Mrs. Eleanor Ainsworth." Sophie, the current resident, felt a surge of… something akin to delight. She picked it up.

Inside, she found a handwritten letter, penned in elegant cursive. The letter described a hidden treasure. She sank into a chair, the words dancing before her eyes.

Her fingers trembled slightly as she reread the missive. A thrill coursed through her, her imagination running wild. She felt a dizzying sensation, as if the world around her had suddenly become much more vibrant, much more interesting.

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