astonished - Story 10356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” muttered Mark, sweating in the stifling heat. The attic was a disaster. He’d only come up to find the Christmas decorations, but he was finding so much more.

He kicked aside a pile of old newspapers and discovered a dusty, leather-bound book. He blew off the dust and carefully opened it. The pages were filled with strange symbols and illustrations. He didn't understand it, but he couldn't put it down.

He felt his pulse quicken as he turned the pages. He was completely captivated by the contents.

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