astonished - Story 10375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen was thick with the scent of burnt toast and something else…something metallic. Sarah, already feeling off-kilter after the move, stumbled backward. She had been leaning against the pantry wall, and now found her hand pushing into empty space. The back panel of the pantry had given way, revealing a hidden room.

She took a shaky breath. This wasn’t right. This wasn't how things were supposed to be. She ran her hand over the rough, unfinished wood of the door. The space was pitch black. Her stomach lurched. Was this a mistake? Should she call someone? Instead, she reached for the light switch.

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