The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Clara sank onto the edge of the bed, the open document on her husband's laptop radiating an unsettling light. "The Software Developer's Code" – she was the lead character, the brilliant, complex coder. The novel delved into the intricacies of her work, the pressure she bore, the secret dreams she held close to her heart. The details… they were uncanny. A flush crept up her chest, and she fanned herself with a trembling hand. A wave of dizziness 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