The vibrant music from the party seemed to fade, as if filtered through layers of cotton. Amelia blinked, trying to clear her vision, and the room spun, as if she were on a boat in a turbulent sea. Across the room, bathed in the flashing lights, stood her best friend, Sarah, smiling and laughing.

Sarah was waving at her, mouthing something. Amelia strained to hear. The words finally reached her, a dull thud in her brain. “Moving to Texas, for work!”

She felt a wave of nausea.

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