The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten things. Sophia, a new homeowner, held her breath as she entered. She was on a mission for the previous owners' will, and had heard it was in the attic.

After what felt like hours, she unearthed a small, ornate box hidden behind a stack of old textbooks. It was made of polished wood, with a complex locking mechanism. She fiddled with it, her heart racing.

Finally, it clicked open. Inside, instead of a will, she found a collection of antique jewelry. Her mouth hung open. She didn't expect this!

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