The notification popped up on Ava’s phone while she was at work. “Your essay has been featured!” She almost dropped her phone. The words blurred before her eyes as she quickly tapped the link.

She had written about her dream to become a doctor. She'd struggled with imposter syndrome throughout the college application process, but now, here was her writing, prominently displayed. She felt her hands start to shake.

A strange lightness filled her. She wanted to shout. She bit back a laugh. She had to call someone, but who? She'd never felt like this before.

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