The phone vibrated in her hand. A text message, a picture of the letter addressed to her. Her brother had taken a photo of it. It had been forwarded on to her. She recognized the handwriting; it had been a lifetime ago when she’d last seen it. She could feel her heart racing, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She sank to the sofa, her gaze fixed on the image on her screen. She couldn’t quite believe it. She felt a lightness, as if she could float away.

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