A warm rush spread through Michael's chest as he read the email. He had done it. He, Michael, had secured the role. He sank back in his chair, the world tilted slightly.

He remembered the late nights, the countless revisions to his portfolio, the constant support from Emily, his friend. They had prepped together, quizzed each other, shared the same dreams. He felt a pang of guilt.

He grabbed his phone, then hesitated. He would tell her, of course. But later. He felt the need to savor this moment alone. This was a dream come true.

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