“Impossible,” Sam murmured, his voice cracking. He felt a rush of adrenaline, a sudden surge of energy that left him restless. The online journal, the article. His article, but not his name. Instead, a name he didn't recognize, and a picture he'd never seen before. He felt the blood pounding in his ears.

He jumped up from his chair, pacing the confines of his small apartment. The walls seemed to be closing in. He felt an urge to scream, to lash out. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the roots, as if searching for an answer he couldn't grasp.

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