"I'm afraid I have to sell the piano," my father announced, his voice tight. The piano, a beautiful grand, had been the centerpiece of their living room for as long as I could remember.

My world seemed to shrink, the edges of everything blurring. The piano, the music, the memories—all threatened with extinction.

My hands clenched into fists. I felt a strange heat building in my cheeks. My voice was a choked whisper, “But…but how can you?”

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