It was a feeling he hadn’t known before. A blend of confusion and elation. Ms. Bellweather, the drama teacher with the theatrical flair, followed him. He wasn't sure what to think, but he found himself giggling uncontrollably. He re-read the notification. She followed him.

He found himself wondering if she would see his latest video, the one of him doing a comedic interpretation of a famous Shakespearean monologue. Suddenly, he couldn’t contain himself; he had to record another skit, a better one. He was instantly energized, ideas bubbling to the surface. He felt ready to perform.

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