Her mouth fell open, her jaw dropping slightly. Amelia leaned closer to the computer screen, squinting as if to make sure she was seeing correctly. It was real. Her childhood home was listed for sale.

Her hands began to tremble. She hadn't expected this. She never thought of the possibility. The new owners had completely transformed the property. It felt unfamiliar.

A rush of emotions surged through her. She felt like she was standing on the precipice of a forgotten chapter of her life. She took a deep breath, fighting to regain her composure. She couldn't tear her eyes away.

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