The manuscript arrived in the mail, unsolicited. He’d almost thrown it away, dismissing it as junk mail. Curiosity had won out. Now, hours later, he sat hunched over his desk, his eyes glued to the pages.

He flipped through the document, his heart beating fast. Paragraphs detailing childhood secrets, private thoughts, and long-forgotten dreams. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips, a desire to understand what was happening to him, and who wrote it. He slowly grinned.

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