A strange tingling spread through his hands. Mr. Peterson, the librarian who always knew a book for any mood, was following him. He felt a strange sort of comfort. He re-read the notification, a warm smile spreading across his face.

He had shared some of his favorite books on his feed. Maybe he would find him on his account. Suddenly, he wanted to read more, to discover new worlds, to share them with him. He felt a new enthusiasm for literature, a newfound connection to the person who had fueled his passion. He wanted to visit the library, now.

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