I blinked, my vision blurring. The words formed a buzzing sound in my ears. I felt like the world had been pulled out from under me. I stared blankly at the screen, then looked at the professor, my mind racing. No way. Absolutely no way. I had stayed up all night to write that paper, and now...this?

I felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. My hands clenched into fists, nails digging into my palms. The comfortable familiarity of my usual surroundings now seemed threatening, alien.

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