He was not prepared for what he found. The attic's door had been nailed shut for years. Now, he was going to see what was behind it.

He pushed the door and the lock burst open. He held his breath, then stepped inside.

He scanned the dark space. After a moment, he saw it. A dark cage, seemingly made of iron, and within it, a perfectly preserved skeleton. He felt something in his stomach turn. He moved toward it, unable to look away, and felt his pulse quicken.

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