I was walking through the park, taking a break from my songwriting. I heard it, a familiar tune that seemed to call out to me. My feet froze.

A group of friends were sitting on a picnic blanket, singing. And they were singing *my* song. The melody, the lyrics, everything.

My face went hot, and I could feel my cheeks turning red. I felt as if the world was spinning around me. I leaned against a nearby tree for support.

It was a strange blend of pride and confusion. I'd never intended for anyone to hear my private compositions.

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