Mark slammed his laptop shut, the metallic sound echoing in the otherwise silent room. His son, Alex, had been complaining about a lack of privacy, and Mark, in a moment of weakness, had decided to snoop. "Alex_The_Great," the profile boasted. It was filled with gaming videos, memes, and a surprisingly large following.

He hadn't known Alex was so… popular. It was a strange feeling, like the ground had shifted under his feet. He had a million questions.

He began to pace. He muttered, "Well, I'll be…"

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