The antique shop was dimly lit, filled with the scent of aged paper and forgotten things. Clara found the letter tucked inside a first edition she was cataloging. The handwriting, elegant and precise, belonged to her estranged grandmother, a woman she hadn't spoken to in two decades. Clara's stomach lurched, and a chill spread through her. She felt compelled to sit down on the dusty floor, the heavy book almost sliding from her grasp. She squinted, the words swimming before her eyes.

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