She'd come to the yard sale to find something to brighten up her dreary apartment. Then, there he was. A wave of a long-buried past crashed over her, leaving her stunned. She felt frozen, unable to move.

Her pulse hammered. She bit her lip to stop it from trembling. The image of the bear, sitting amidst the clutter, was a shock. She felt as though she’d been sucker-punched.

She moved closer, her hands shaking, and then, she asked, "How much?"

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