The clatter of the car’s engine faded into a hum as she scanned the tables. Junk, more junk, and then... a jolt, like a static shock. Her heart leaped.

She stumbled towards it, her legs feeling unsteady. A tightness constricted her chest. The bear, missing one eye, but instantly recognizable, stared up at her.

"Wow," she breathed, the word a mere fragment of her feelings. "Wow…" She ran her fingers along the worn fur.

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