The final words of the will hung in the air. The lawyer, a young woman with a crisp demeanor, paused, then looked at the siblings. I watched my sister, Olivia, and she, in turn, looked at me.

“For Ms. Sarah, a… a small island in the Pacific.” My sister gasped, her eyes widening. She had always loved the sea.

My inheritance? A modest, run-down bookstore in a small town. I stared at the lawyer, then at my sister, a hollow feeling settling in my chest. The world felt… sideways.

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