“What the…” Sarah muttered. She was not prepared for this. She’d been so focused on her son, Leo, and his grades, she’d neglected to consider this. The account was meticulously crafted, each post a carefully curated piece of art.

She took a deep breath, fighting to regain control. Leo, her introverted, academically driven son, had a secret life. And it was brilliant. The photos were artistic, the writing poetic.

Sarah felt a complex mix of feelings. She didn't know whether to be angry or proud. Her world had taken an unexpected turn.

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