The information arrived on his phone, a notification that felt like a blow. He checked his surroundings, as if to make sure he was alone. The promotion? Both him and Susan? Susan, who was notorious for her absenteeism?

He felt a tightness in his chest, a feeling of disbelief that twisted his gut. He had to sit down, the world tilting slightly. His head felt light.

He gripped the edges of his desk, trying to steady himself. He needed to get out of the office. He stood up and made a quick escape, heading for the front door, the sunlight blinding.

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