astonished - Story 10204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scene was unsettling. The pristine gravel of the driveway was undisturbed, a blank canvas where her vintage beetle should have been. Amelia’s mouth parted in a silent "Oh." Her heart pounded against her ribs, a frantic drummer in her chest.

She paced the length of the driveway, her gaze constantly returning to the empty space. Her palms were sweating. The early morning breeze, usually a welcome caress, now felt like a icy slap.

"That's… that's just… impossible," she finally choked out, her voice barely a whisper. She spun around, a helpless gesture, as if the missing car might magically reappear if she just looked away.

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