The email shimmered on the screen, a message from a lawyer. A half-sister. For a long moment, Amelia could do nothing but stare at the words. She got up, walked to her bookshelf, and then back to her desk. She went back to the bookshelf again. She couldn’t sit still. The news had ignited something inside her, a fire she couldn't contain. She needed to know everything, every detail, every aspect. Her hand drifted up to her mouth, and she bit her lip, a grin slowly forming.

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