From the moment she clicked on the link, a chill ran down Melissa's spine. It was a fake account, under a fake name, and her daughter, Chloe, was the subject of the posts. Pictures, videos, even a running commentary, all documenting Chloe's daily life.

Her hands started to shake. She frantically scrolled through the content, her eyes darting from image to image. Each post was a violation, a trespass.

Melissa felt a rising panic, a tightening in her chest. The room began to spin. She stood up abruptly and stumbled toward the window, gasping for air. This felt like a nightmare.

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