The typed pages crinkled in Amelia’s trembling hands. The story, written by her husband, David, was about her. About them, but…better. Sharper. More dramatic. A thrilling drama about the love they shared. He saw her as the bold explorer who had always been trapped in a corporate career.

A giddy, almost frantic energy coursed through her. She didn’t know what to do with herself. Her hands were shaking so badly, she could barely hold the pages. How had he found all this out, how had he written this whole thing?

The front door opened and shut. Amelia ran her hand through her hair, smiling. David was home.

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