astonished - Story 10323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper crackled in his trembling hands. Chef Marco nearly dropped it when he read the critique. The writer had called his risotto "a gluey, flavorless mess." Marco, the man who’d spent a year in Italy learning from a nonna’s secret recipes. He stumbled backward, knocking over a stack of neatly folded linen napkins. They tumbled to the floor in a heap. His face burned with a strange, unfamiliar heat. He felt a desperate urge to run, to vanish into the anonymity of the city.

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