The sudden coldness in her hands gave her pause. The drawing. It was him. The same crooked smile, the same patched-up clothes, the same name. "Whisper."

She felt a wave of confusion. It wasn't possible. She hadn’t thought of him in years.

She turned to her niece, Daisy, unable to speak, a silent question forming in her eyes. "He plays hide-and-seek with me." Daisy looked up from the drawing, oblivious. Her jaw felt tight, her pulse racing.

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