He felt his cheeks flush as he stood before the crowd. He took a sip of water, the cold liquid a shock. He had known this day would come, but he hadn’t imagined the scale of it. The enormity of the event was almost shocking.

The spotlight was blinding. He took a breath. He thought of his parents' lifetime of work, their dedication to each other.

He started speaking, his voice wavering only slightly. He felt an intense surge of affection for his parents.

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