It felt like time had stopped. Jess was in the middle of a lecture on her phone when she saw the alert. Mr. Thompson, her chemistry teacher, was now following her. She blinked a few times, wondering if she was hallucinating. The screen swam before her eyes.

She quickly exited the app and then reopened it, just to be sure. His profile was still there. She felt a strange tingling sensation, beginning in her toes and spreading upwards. It was a sensation of… something unexpected. She had the sudden urge to run.

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