The box was enormous, and it had been abandoned on the curb. "For the Occupant," the label read, a generic and impersonal inscription. It had clearly been there for a while, judging by the rain damage. John, always one for a freebie, dragged it inside. With a crowbar, he pried it open. Inside, he discovered a fully functional, antique printing press. He ran a hand across its cool, metal surface. Why would someone just leave a printing press on the curb? He wasn't sure what to think.

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