He stared at the grade on the screen, a B-. He felt a strange detachment, like he wasn't really seeing the score. He'd put in so much effort, dedicating every weekend for the last month.

His eyebrows shot upward involuntarily, as if in a perpetual state of surprise. He blinked, trying to make sense of the situation, but the number just remained there, mocking him. He found his mouth twitching uncontrollably, like he was trying to suppress a giggle.

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