astonished - Story 10079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The karaoke bar was loud, crowded, and smoky. He had come here with friends to celebrate a promotion. But then he saw her. The woman belting out a power ballad on stage was "VocalVixen," his online karaoke partner.

His eyebrows shot up. His drink nearly spilled as he abruptly stopped laughing and talking. He knew every note, every inflection, and the way she loved to sing.

He was stunned. He froze. All the late-night duets, the virtual applause, the shared love of music—it was all suddenly real.

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