The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock him. James felt a growing pressure in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. The woman next to him, who was explaining how "he" had helped her pick out a sculpture, described the same piece he’d been with her to see. The exact same one. James' heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a burning sensation in his throat. He cleared it. "Wait… what was his favorite drink?" he managed, the words catching in his throat. She looked at him confused, then smiled, and mentioned a drink that was his particular favourite.

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