From the bus, Liam watched as the demolition crew began their work. The wrecking ball swung, and a chunk of the roof vanished. His heart rate quickened. He hadn't expected to feel… this.

He tapped his foot against the floor, a repetitive rhythm that did nothing to calm the chaos in his mind. He found himself grinning, a wide, almost manic expression plastered across his face.

He let out a long, slow whistle. He suddenly felt a need to see it up close. He was sure it was a great idea. He jumped off the bus and sprinted down the road, his sneakers slapping against the pavement, a mad energy flowing through 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