astonished - Story 10328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen suddenly felt thick, almost suffocating. Chef Sylvie slumped against the wall, the newspaper clutched tightly in her hand. The review of her latest dessert, a chocolate lava cake, was brutal. "A burnt offering," the critic had labeled it. Sylvie was sure she was going to faint. The usual comforting aromas of the kitchen, the sweet smell of baking bread, the earthy scent of herbs, seemed to have vanished. Only the metallic tang of fear remained.

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