“Just a librarian,” she’d said. Jessica had always believed her best friend, Melissa, when she would explain her job. Jessica had imagined quiet rooms, towering shelves, and the comforting scent of old paper. Now, here she stood.

She was in the middle of a vast complex called "The Alexandria Archive." The place looked like a museum, filled with cutting-edge technology and security. Jessica felt a flutter in her chest.

A holographic display showed a woman, who Jessica recognized as Melissa, giving a presentation to a group of international delegates. Jessica pressed her lips together, then she said, "I have to find Melissa."

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