The small, cluttered office suddenly seemed smaller, the walls closing in on Michael. He'd been looking for something… anything… to explain his daughter, Sophie's, sudden mood swings. And he'd found it. The account.

The pictures were stunning – Sophie, confidently posed, in exotic locations, dressed in clothes Michael had never seen. The captions hinted at adventures, experiences far beyond her daily routine.

He felt a knot form in his throat. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't used in years. Where had she found the time and the resources? The whole thing was… bewildering.

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