“Oh, my god.” Sarah’s voice was a strained gasp. She clutched the printout of “The Dancer’s Shadow” to her chest. It was filled with her life, her rehearsals, her doubts. The writer, her husband, portrayed her inner turmoil with unnerving accuracy. The way he knew about her childhood fears… He’d been watching her, really *seeing* her. Her stomach twisted, and she felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee the room, to escape this manufactured version of 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