He let out a whoop. The invitations landed on his desk simultaneously – a formal dinner party with his family, and a rowdy game night with his friends. The same day. His heart skipped a beat, and his breathing hitched.

He couldn't contain his excitement. He leaped from his chair, a burst of energy making him want to sprint around the room. It was like the universe had orchestrated this just for him.

He picked up his phone, immediately starting to make calls, planning how to navigate this unexpected situation. His voice was filled with an exuberant tone.

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