"Wow," Emily whispered, staring at the document. She'd been clearing out her grandfather's old office. Her eyes darted back and forth. The letter, penned in a formal style, was on official stationery.

Her heart pounded in her chest. He was always so reserved, so quiet. This was not the person she knew. A resignation from his long-held, seemingly cherished, position.

Emily's face was pale. She didn't know how to process it. The details were a mystery. She was speechless.

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