astonished - Story 10099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key scraped in the lock. It was like something out of a bad movie, she thought. He hadn't been home for 10 years, and now, suddenly, here he was. He was surprised the lock still worked.

He walked in, and everything was where it was supposed to be. His old bedroom furniture had been reupholstered. He was sure he saw a vase filled with flowers, but it was just like the rest of the room. It was not his.

His mother bustled down the hall and then stopped short. "Oh, Michael! Welcome home." He felt his jaw drop, and he quickly shut it again.

He was speechless.

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