"So, you're the new face in HR," a booming voice resonated. The man, with a laugh that filled the room, offered a handshake. Sarah had expected something different. The transition was supposed to be a standard job. But the environment was electric. It was clear that she was no longer in the somber atmosphere of finance.

She found herself, almost involuntarily, straightening her shoulders. The air crackled with a distinct energy. This place—with its open-plan layout, its art installations, and the lively banter—was unlike anything she had known. Sarah couldn't help but feel a sudden burst of energy. She realized, with a shock, that she was practically bouncing on the balls of her feet.

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