He hadn't felt this way in years. Not since... well, not since everything had changed. His vision blurred slightly. The world seemed to shrink to the space around the bear, the frayed fabric, the faded colors.

He could feel the blood rushing in his ears. He blinked rapidly, then took a step forward. He felt a desperate urge to touch it, to hold it again, as he had so many years ago.

"I... I can't believe it," he murmured, more to himself than anyone. "How much are you asking?"

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