The envelope felt strangely heavy in her hand. Emily had known it was coming, but had also dared to hope. Her fingers fumbled with the clasp, pulling it open with a shaky jerk. Her eyes scanned the crisp letter, each word a blow. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle. She crumpled the paper in her fist, then quickly smoothed it out, as if by doing so, she could rewrite the verdict. The library around her faded into a dull hum.

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