astonished - Story 10028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot formed in his stomach. He wasn't sure how to feel. He should be happy, he reasoned. But the image of "Captain Calico," a pirate with a missing eye and a parrot on his shoulder, was something he had not thought about in decades.

"Where did she get this?" he asked his sister, a tremor in his voice. "This...character?"

His sister just smiled and waved a hand. “She's got a vivid imagination, bless her heart!” He was frozen, his mind scrambling to explain the inexplicable. He took a deep, shaky breath, and felt utterly lost.

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:

`que`	0.448
`de`	0.350
`la`	0.323
`l`	0.307
`incred`	0.266

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.289
`cheerfully`	-0.231
`enjoyed`	-0.224
`开心`	-0.221
`ี่ยว`	-0.219