The delivery had been swift. Almost too swift. One moment, she'd been at her desk, the next, a cascade of freesias and lilacs filled her office, delivered with a smile from the courier. No card. She felt a jolt of something akin to panic. The other girls in the office, her coworkers, started to smile and nudge each other. She had an uncharacteristic urge to yell at them to stop. She felt like a fish out of water. Her co-workers’ knowing smiles were becoming unbearable.

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