David felt a strange, cold sensation prickling at his scalp. “Emily Carter has sent you a friend request.” Emily, the girl who had orchestrated the elaborate prank that got him suspended from school. He didn't think about her often, if ever.

He took a deep breath, his chest tightening. He felt a need to check it out. He wanted to know, what possibly, could she want? He felt a faint twinge in his jaw muscles. He wasn't sure what to expect.

He opened her profile, his fingers shaking slightly. She had posted about an upcoming charity event. David was so confused. He closed the app, and leaned forward to rest his forehead on his desk.

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