The professor’s voice droned on, but Emily couldn't focus. The news, delivered at the beginning of the lecture, had knocked the wind out of her. She leaned back in her chair, the hard plastic biting into her back. The air in the lecture hall seemed to thicken, making it difficult to draw a deep breath. She glanced around at her classmates, their faces a mixture of confusion and dismay, mirroring her own internal state. A cold wave of despair washed over her.

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