“The drumming,” the elderly man next door said, his voice a low growl. “It disturbs my afternoon nap.”

She opened her mouth, ready to object, but no words came. The drumming? She hadn't played her kit in weeks, not since she’d been sick. The idea of her making a racket was absurd.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She was sure she hadn't been making any noise. The man's words felt like a physical blow. She just stared at him.

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