The crash of shattered glass jolted Emily from her afternoon reverie. She rushed to the window, her heart pounding. Her neighbor, the elderly Mrs. Gable, was kicking out the window of her living room.

Emily was dumbstruck. This was so unlike her. She was always so pleasant.

She watched, frozen in place, as Mrs. Gable picked up a crowbar, and pried at the frame, a determined glint in her eye. She was speechless. This seemed impossible.

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