"For Mr. and Mrs. Alistair Finch," the delivery person announced, handing her the package. Amelia's brows knitted together. She was neither Mr. nor Mrs., and she certainly didn't know an Alistair Finch. She signed for it, a strange sense of disquiet bubbling up within her. She brought it inside, placing it on the kitchen counter. Hours later, she still hadn't opened it, a feeling of dread clinging to her like a wet shroud. She finally ripped it open, to find a collection of beautiful hand-drawn maps of the city, that she had lived in for her entire life. Maps she'd never seen before.

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