"You have got to be kidding me," Mark blurted out, the words escaping before he could control them. He'd just read the DNA results, a document that had changed his life. A sister. He paced his small apartment, the news buzzing through him. He pictured his father, the man he knew, the man who’d kept this secret for so long. He stopped, staring at a picture on the wall, and felt a strange sense of excitement bubbling within him. He wanted to know everything about her.

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