The air grew thin as Amelia ascended the pull-down stairs. She'd always considered the attic a pointless space, until now. The previous owners had left her a gift.

Scattered amongst the junk were neatly labeled boxes. One, marked "Recipe Cards," caught her eye. She pulled it down and opened it. Inside, she found a collection of handwritten recipes, some for dishes she'd never heard of, some for ones she recognized.

She picked up a card, a smile slowly spreading across her face. Her hands began to tremble. Her whole life, she'd been searching for these recipes.

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