He let out a strangled laugh, a sound that was more of a gasp. "Well, that's… something," he mumbled. John had stumbled upon the listing by accident, a random click leading him to a past he thought he'd put behind him. He wasn't even looking for it.

He sat there, utterly still. He couldn't move. The property was in prime condition, the landscaping immaculate. He was confused. The house looked so different. He remembered the chipped paint, the overgrown bushes, the general air of neglect.

He felt a wave of confusion. He had a weird sensation. He hadn’t felt anything so strange in years. He wasn’t sure how to feel.

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