The locker room smelled of sweat and liniment. Coach Garcia had just finished his announcement, naming the players who'd made the final cut. Then, a single name was called. Carlos. Then, nothing.

Carlos stared at his gear, then at the floor, then back at the Coach. His hands clenched and unclenched at his sides. He took a single, slow step forward, then another. He looked as if he were moving in slow motion. The other players avoided his gaze.

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