Eliza, digging through a dusty attic trunk, had stumbled upon a treasure trove of her father's forgotten belongings. Among the keepsakes, a meticulously typed letter stood out. It was a resignation from a prestigious university, a detail that jarred her.

She sat down heavily on a forgotten chair. Her father had always emphasized the importance of education, of career stability. Her father loved his job. He was a well-respected professor.

Eliza re-read the words, the sentences striking her like blows. This secret letter unraveled the narrative she had long believed. The truth was something she wasn't prepared for.

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