astonished - Story 10358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust swirled around David as he ventured into the attic. He felt as though the house was holding its breath, waiting. He had an eerie premonition.

He was looking for his old baseball glove, but he discovered something far more intriguing. Underneath a pile of broken furniture, he found a collection of vintage instruments, including a gleaming trumpet and a worn guitar.

He knew nothing about music, but he found himself drawn to the instruments. He picked up the trumpet, brought it to his lips, and hesitated. He looked down the length of the instrument, eyes wide.

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