The numbers on the screen blurred as John stared at them. He had been reviewing the project budget and saw the line item for “Assistant Project Manager – $88,000.” He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. His stomach churned. It was for the new hire. He, the senior project manager, made less!

He pinched the bridge of his nose, trying to clear his head. He thought he should probably faint. He felt a sudden, urgent need to sit down.

He leaned back in his chair, and let out a sigh.

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