"Did you SEE that?" Michael stammered, pointing at the glittering yacht now moored in Mr. Peterson's previously unremarkable driveway. He turned to his wife, Emily, his voice a bewildered whisper.

Emily, who was mid-sentence about the price of eggs, stopped mid-word. She stared at the behemoth, her usual calm demeanor shattered. Her eyes widened, and she took a sharp intake of breath.

They both stood there, rooted to the spot, as they watched crew members begin unloading what appeared to be cases of champagne. Michael couldn't believe it. He had always thought Mr. Peterson was just a friendly, retired accountant.

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