David pulled up outside the cafe, the familiar logo of "The Daily Grind" catching his eye. Then he saw her. The woman from the forum, the one who always knew the perfect obscure band, the one he'd spent countless nights debating with. His mouth went dry. Her red scarf, the one she’d described, was draped just so. He slowly exited his car, a grin spreading across his face, so wide it hurt. This was...unexpected.

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