astonished - Story 10060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop, crammed with forgotten treasures and cast-off dreams, felt claustrophobic. Olivia was just passing time. She found herself drawn to a display of antique jewelry. And then, there it was. The ring. A filigree band with a single, large pearl, the ring her grandmother, Eleanor, had always worn.

Her breath hitched. She felt a cold shiver run down her spine. The world seemed to shrink around her. She felt strangely detached from her own body. A thousand questions flooded her mind, but she could not formulate a single one.

"You interested in something?" the shop owner asked, breaking the silence. Olivia simply pointed, her finger 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