He leaned back in his chair, slowly, deliberately. The secretary's words were ringing in his ears. His medical records? Intertwined with another person's? He felt a strange tingling in his scalp.

He looked around the sterile office, at the waiting room filled with people. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of vertigo. He was suddenly aware of every breath he took, every heartbeat.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, trying to regain his composure. He felt a flicker of anger, but it was quickly overshadowed by a feeling of profound unease. He felt as though he’d been thrown into an unknown, disorienting dimension.

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