astonished - Story 10413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diner was almost empty at this hour. Maya, sweeping the floor, had noticed the wallet under a table. A thick wad of cash spilled out when she opened it. Her hand flew to her mouth. She backed away from the table as if it had suddenly become contaminated. The clatter of the broom against the tile floor seemed impossibly loud. She blinked, feeling a strange pressure in her chest, a lightness in her limbs.

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