It was during our annual beach vacation. My sister, Chloe, always so grounded and sensible, built castles, read romance novels, and took long naps. One afternoon, she announced she was embracing Wicca.

The waves crashed against the shore, a rhythmic pulse that I'd always found soothing, but today I found it jarring. I felt my stomach clench. I stared at her, unable to speak, the salt air suddenly tasting acrid on my tongue. The book in her lap was now closed, and she was gazing out at the ocean.

Emotion: astonished

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -0.84 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion astonished. 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 astonished stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the astonished emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the astonished vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
que0.448
de0.350
la0.323
l0.307
incred0.266
Suppressed:
own-0.289
cheerfully-0.231
enjoyed-0.224
开心-0.221
ี่ยว-0.219