astonished - Story 10077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe was her usual haunt, but today, it seemed different. She nearly tripped over her own feet when she noticed the woman sipping coffee at a nearby table. It was "BookwormBella." The woman’s book matched the edition and cover of the one she had recommended, the one she had been reading and discussing for months.

She couldn’t formulate a thought. She felt a strange tingling sensation spreading through her limbs. She had told "BookwormBella" everything. She’d shared her deepest fears and desires. And now, she was... right *there*.

Her cup nearly slipped from her hand. It felt like she was watching a movie scene.

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