astonished - Story 10043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thwack-thwack-thwack of hammers became the new soundtrack to Thomas's life. He couldn't believe his ears. From his bedroom window, he watched Mrs. Peterson, the librarian, transform her quiet, book-lined living room into a construction zone.

He’d always pegged her for someone who preferred tea and quiet novels, not pneumatic drills and drywall. The transformation was so quick.

He reached for his phone, then hesitated. Should he call someone? The police? He was just stuck, though, just rooted to the spot and unable to move. She emerged from her house and winked at him. He flinched and ducked back inside.

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