He’d found the manuscript in a drawer – “The Sculptor’s Subject.” Thomas’s heart hammered against his ribs. The story was about him, the protagonist a quiet man who modeled, just like him. The descriptions of his studio, his work, the way his hands moved over the clay… it was… uncanny. He scanned the pages, his eyes darting back and forth, trying to reconcile the fictionalized narrative with the reality of his own life. He felt a deep, profound disquiet begin to churn in his stomach.

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