The clinking of china and hushed voices drifted from the other side of the hedge. For weeks, John had noticed a rise in activity at the Millers' house: deliveries of gourmet food, the arrival of staff in crisp uniforms. But he assumed it was just a particularly lavish dinner party.

Then came the announcement. A private concert featuring an internationally renowned violinist. John almost choked on his cereal.

He peered through a gap in the hedge, observing the scene. He knew the Millers were the sort of people who took the bus. He now learned the Millers were the sort of people who could afford the price of admission to a private concert.

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