The weight of the family history, so carefully constructed, felt like a burden suddenly lifted, revealing… what? He wasn’t sure. The photos contradicted everything he thought he knew. The images portrayed his great-uncle, a supposed war hero, playing cards with a group of friends in a smoky room, laughing. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to chuckle, too. He rubbed his eyes, disoriented, and then began to laugh, softly at first, and then with a growing, irresistible force.

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