He stared at the television screen, dumbfounded. A celebrity chef was demonstrating how to make his 'Sea Breeze Ceviche' recipe, changing a few of the ingredients. He knew the dish, he knew the flavors. It was, or at least it had been, his. He felt an intense, internal pressure, a buzzing in his ears.

He’d only shared the recipe with his former coworker, Sarah, who had expressed a deep interest in his family’s ceviche.

He felt a curious mixture of disbelief and, strangely, pride. He reached for his phone, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. This was surreal. He took a photo of the TV screen.

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