The archaeologist, Dr. Anya Sharma, uncovered the capsule with meticulous care. Years of studying the past prepared her for anything, she thought. But the contents… They were baffling. Photos of her, younger, smiling at a woman she couldn't place. Letters in her own handwriting, detailing dreams she had long forgotten. A lock of hair, undeniably hers, tucked inside a small velvet pouch. She felt a prickle of gooseflesh crawl across her arms. Her hands shook as she turned the objects over, a sense of disquiet settling deep in her stomach. What was the truth here, and who was she looking at?

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