astonished - Story 10326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” Chef Isabella muttered under her breath, her fingers clutching the offending newspaper clipping. The critic had called her paella “a culinary crime.” Isabella had spent hours sourcing the freshest saffron, meticulously preparing each element. Her usually sharp gaze was glazed over. Her breath hitched. She went directly to her walk-in, and stared at the ingredients. They were nothing, now. Just… ingredients.

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