Her eyes widened, fixing on the picture. Her niece, Olivia, had drawn "Bloom," the pixie that had been her constant companion when she was little. It was not a carbon copy, but the details, the colours, the way she held her hands, it was like someone had ripped it from her memory. She was in disarray.

“Who is that, Liv?” she asked quietly, her breath coming in shallow gasps.

Olivia just shrugged. “Bloom. She keeps the garden safe.” She felt her vision starting to blur, the world swimming around her. This... this could not be happening.

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