astonished - Story 10037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant cover of *Lila’s Legacy* mocked her with its cheerful font and smiling portrait. Lila felt a hollowness in her chest, a void that seemed to be expanding with every passing second. Her past, her present, her secrets, all laid bare. The audacity of it, to take her life and… twist it.

Her hands shook as she flipped through the pages. The words jumped out, each sentence a blow. She felt a strange detachment, as if she were an actress in a play she hadn't auditioned for. A play she never wanted to star in. She bit her lip to stop the trembling.

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