astonished - Story 10080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was packed, but he knew at once when he saw the back of her head. He had spent hours talking to "ArtfulAnya" about every piece in the exhibit.

He could feel his face flush. He was lightheaded. He felt as if the world had suddenly become small. He began to sweat. Her favorite painting was the one they had discussed most often. He knew her, but in a way that felt impossibly removed from reality.

He slowly walked towards her. He couldn't help himself. He just hoped his mouth wouldn't fail him.

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