astonished - Story 10436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The Midnight Bloom Cake,” the bakery sign proclaimed. It was her cake, her beloved creation. She’d spent countless nights perfecting the recipe, testing every single element. Her heart started to pound in her chest. She stood frozen in the doorway, her hands clutching her purse so tightly her knuckles were white. The familiar aroma of vanilla and butter was now a source of distress, and she backed away, as if physically repelled by the sweet scent.

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