Her breath hitched. Ms. Evans, her choir teacher, had followed her. She was a little shy, and she was not entirely confident in her singing abilities. She felt a jolt of pure exhilaration. She immediately scrolled through her past posts, replaying her song in her head.

A grin spread across her face. He was actually going to listen to her songs. She felt a renewed confidence in her voice, a desire to sing louder. She had to record another song. Maybe Ms. Evans would like her voice.

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