Heads whipped around the class. “Did you see?” Mark hissed, nudging Sarah. Sarah’s face was a mask of utter amazement. Apparently, Mr. Davies, their notoriously stern physics teacher, had been liking her posts about her cat. Her cat! Sarah's cheeks heated up. She sunk lower in her chair, fiddling with the frayed edge of her notebook.

A strange buzzing noise filled her ears. She hadn't expected this. She never posted anything remotely interesting. He'd even liked the one where she'd complained about the physics homework. Did he think it was… funny? The thought made her want to crawl into a hole.

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