The weight of the house settled on John's shoulders as he pushed the attic door open. He felt something strange, like an invisible hand pushing back. He had never been to the attic before.

He navigated the maze of forgotten objects, his flashlight cutting through the gloom. Then, he spotted it: a small, intricately carved wooden box tucked away in a corner. He reached for it, his fingers fumbling with the clasp.

When it sprung open, he leaned closer. The box contained letters, tied together with faded ribbon. He took one out and started to read, his eyes widening with each sentence.

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