As soon as Daniel spotted the email, he knew. He knew he'd landed the position. He leaned back in his chair, a goofy grin plastered across his face.

He had expected to be at odds with Alex, his friend, in this situation. They had both wanted this job fiercely. But during the interview, he'd felt a strange camaraderie, a shared understanding of their aspirations.

He got out of his chair, he paced. He smiled, thinking of the phone call he'd have to make. He wanted to let him know he'd got the job. He had to share the news.

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