astonished - Story 10464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken things. Aunt Clara, usually so vibrant, sat hunched, her shoulders trembling. "I have no choice, really," she mumbled, her voice faint. "The necklace...the emerald one..."

David’s head swam. The necklace, passed down through generations, was the symbol of their family. It represented their history, their strength.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a squeezing sensation that made it difficult to breathe. He wanted to shout, to protest, but the words wouldn't come. He could only gape.

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