The text message. A single sentence. "Party's off. Sorry, bro." He slumped onto the couch, staring at the ceiling. A slow smile spread across his face, and he let out a whoop of pure exhilaration. He kicked his feet up onto the coffee table, a sudden surge of freedom washing over him. The thought of all the obligations, the forced pleasantries, gone. He felt… unburdened. He grabbed the remote and turned up the volume on the TV.

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