astonished - Story 10342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over a box of mismatched shoes, his mind adrift, when something tugged at his memory. There, perched precariously on a rickety folding table, was a flash of cotton fluff and a stitched smile. He froze, a strange pressure building in his chest.

His heart thumped a rapid rhythm against his ribs. He couldn't move. He felt like he'd been punched. The years melted away, and the rough feel of the bear's fur against his cheek, the comforting scent of mothballs and old attic dust, flooded his senses.

"Excuse me," he stammered, his voice tight. "That...that bear... is it for sale?" He swallowed hard, waiting for the seller's reply, his knuckles white as he clenched his hands.

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