The news hit Emily like a physical blow. A half-brother she never knew existed. She laughed, a short, sharp sound that didn't feel like amusement. The letter lay open on her kitchen table, the words swimming before her eyes. She felt a sudden urge to clean, to organize something, anything to bring order to the chaos swirling inside her. She grabbed a sponge and began scrubbing the table, her movements rapid and jerky. What was this person like? Who was he?

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