astonished - Story 10437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony. The flashing lights. The roar of applause. He couldn't believe his ears. They were announcing the winner of the "Best New Dish" competition. His eyes widened as the winner was called. A man he’d met a few times at the farmer's market, who had loved his “Sunset Stew”. He felt a buzzing in his ears. He blinked, unsure if he was dreaming, then began laughing, a hollow, high-pitched sound that was swallowed by the celebratory music.

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