He sat in the plush leather chair, trying to relax. He’d been struggling with a string of bad luck. The therapist’s voice, calm and measured, was a complete contrast to the chaotic feelings bubbling inside him. Then the therapist spoke.

“So, how are you feeling today, Mark?”

He looked up and saw it. The same grin. The same eyes. It was Tom, the kid who used to shove him into lockers. The world felt like it had tilted on its axis. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs.

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