He stared at the figures, the numbers swimming before his eyes. He felt a cold dread creep up his spine. His wife, Sarah, had always been frugal, a trait he admired. But this? Years of hidden deposits, adding up to a truly breathtaking amount. He gripped the leather-bound book shut, his knuckles white. A low whistle escaped him, a sound he hadn't realized he was making. “Well, I’ll be,” he muttered, his voice barely a breath.

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