“Take a pottery class,” the words jumped out at him from the crumpled napkin. He didn’t know this side of her. He felt a sudden, unexpected jolt, as though he’d drunk something fizzy.

He imagined her hands, molding clay, her brow furrowed in concentration. A smile tugged at his lips. How had he missed these passions that must have burned within her?

He grabbed his keys, eager to learn what he had missed. He had to sign them both up.

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