"See the Grand Canyon," the list began, written in his wife's familiar, elegant script. It was a secret he wasn't expecting. A strange warmth spread through him. He'd lived with her for a decade, and this unveiled a hidden piece of her heart.

He felt an impulse to do something grand, something important. He pictured her, standing at the edge of the canyon, awestruck. He smiled to himself, imagining the pictures they would take.

He looked at the calendar on the wall, already scheming how to arrange a trip.

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