“Huh,” Leo said out loud, his voice barely a whisper. He’d been expecting a notification from his friend about their plans after school, but instead, it was Mr. Harrison, his biology teacher. He stared, completely stunned. It was so out of the blue.

He felt like a spotlight had suddenly been turned on him. He hadn’t really posted anything interesting lately. Mostly just pictures of his dog. But, still, he felt an immediate need to re-evaluate his entire online presence. What was he supposed to do now?

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