Her heart pounded. She'd been looking forward to her own tea party for months. Then the email arrived, a vibrant announcement for a circus-themed birthday bash. The date—the same. She felt a sudden need to sit down.

Her fingers fumbled with the mouse, scrolling down the details. She pictured the circus tent, the acrobats, the vibrant music. Her tea party, suddenly, seemed... underwhelming.

“Oh, come on,” she muttered, a wave of heat rising in her cheeks.

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