The old woman’s voice, raspy and knowing, still resonated in Michael's ears. "Happened right here, in the parlor. Terrible business." He swallowed, his throat suddenly dry. He’d known the house was old, but the history of it... to think that his dining room had been stained with someone's life blood. He needed to sit. He slowly sank into his favorite armchair, gazing up at the ornate ceiling, the details suddenly sharper, more… meaningful.

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