He blinked several times, his vision blurring slightly. The letter, delivered by a messenger, sat on his desk. Mr. Davies read it a second time. And a third. It was a contract. A contract offering him a position at a prestigious university, a position he'd always dreamed of. The sender? A student, Emily, whose potential he'd always recognized, but who'd seemed… destined for a less academic path.

He leaned back in his chair, the room spinning. He couldn't believe his eyes. The offer was life-changing. He sat still for quite some time, unable to move or think.

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