"Sheesh," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The results had been posted for an hour, but she'd only just now worked up the nerve to look. Her stomach churned. Her fingers were numb as she scrolled through the email. No name. She let out a short breath, her shoulders sagging. Then, a slow, widening grin spread across her face. A strange, almost giddy energy pulsed through her veins. This wasn’t what she had expected.

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