astonished - Story 10189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house had become oppressive. Emma sat on the sofa, the remote control forgotten in her hand. Across the room, on the coffee table, lay Greg’s phone. She had seen the call history, the repeated number she didn’t recognise. He was now out.

She ran her thumb across the screen, the cool glass a stark contrast to the sudden heat in her cheeks. The number. She bit her lip, debating whether to look up the contact. Her curiosity had been piqued. She was shaking her head.

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