astonished - Story 10150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop was cold. My mechanic, Frank, always kept the place humming with activity, oil slicks and engine parts strewn about. I walked in, and saw a sign on the door: *Closed. Thanks for everything.* I felt a coldness wash over me. I looked around, my gaze locking on the tools, the unfinished projects, the scent of gasoline and grease. The world had shifted on its axis. He was gone. Where had he gone? I felt as though I was on an island, all alone.

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