The world swam before Maya’s eyes as she listened to the lawyer explain the details. A half-sibling, a brother, left behind in her mother's past, a secret she had carried all her life. A brother. A feeling she couldn't quite articulate bloomed in her stomach, a combination of anticipation and disbelief. She kept touching the arm of her chair, tracing the familiar wood grain as a way to ground herself. This was something she never expected, a piece of her life she hadn't known was missing.

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