“How?” he asked, the word escaping his lips as a mere whisper. He looked at the stranger sitting across from him at the bar. The stranger, holding a copy of his biography, nodded slowly. He looked around.

The bar was blurry, and the lights seemed too bright. He felt a surge of energy, a jittery buzz that coursed through him. He couldn’t sit still, and the seat felt like it was shrinking beneath him. He was lost in a labyrinth of thoughts and emotions, his mind racing to understand it all.

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