The lawyer's summary was done. "So, congratulations." He'd shaken their hands and left. It was over. Now, Liam and his sister, Chloe, stood outside the front door, the key in his hand. He slowly inserted the key, turned, and pushed the door open. Chloe started to speak, then stopped, her mouth hanging open. She stepped inside.

The smell inside was powerful, like a memory that wouldn't let go. He felt a sudden pressure in his chest, making it hard to breathe. He looked at his sister, whose face was slowly turning pale.

He stepped inside.

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