astonished - Story 10056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John walked through the door, already planning his exit. Pawn shops always felt depressing. He was looking for a used guitar. Then, amidst the clutter of mismatched items, he froze. The ring. The emerald-cut ring. His great-aunt Mildred's engagement ring.

He stood rooted, his breath catching in his throat. His vision blurred. He felt a sudden coldness, a feeling like he’d been plunged into icy water. How could it be? He hadn't known it was missing.

“You alright there, pal?” The shop owner's words seemed to come from far away. John shook his head, unable to speak. He just stared.

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