astonished - Story 10343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the rows of tables overflowing with forgotten treasures. She’d been hunting for a vintage teacup, something to add to her collection. Then she saw it. Propped against a chipped ceramic cat.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She nearly fell back. Her breath hitched. The small, brown bear, with its lopsided grin, brought back a flood of memories. She remembered cuddling it during thunderstorms. The bear had always kept her safe.

She was suddenly desperate. "How much is that bear?" she managed to say, her voice cracking. The price didn't matter.

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