Liam was backstage, nervously tuning his guitar before his own gig. He heard the familiar intro, a song he'd written years ago, drift in from the open doorway. It was a cover, played by the opening act. He froze, his hands still.

His breath hitched. He forgot about his stage fright. The lead singer’s voice, a soaring tenor, brought a fresh perspective to his music. The way they added flourishes during the bridge was interesting.

*They chose my song.* He had to see this. He quietly slipped out, peering from the side of the stage. He was lost for words.

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