astonished - Story 10466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of dust and old books hung heavy in the air. "The library," Uncle George announced, his voice flat. "I'm planning on selling the library."

My eyes widened. The library! It was a room filled with towering shelves of books, leather-bound classics, and tales of adventure. It was a treasure trove of knowledge and imagination. It was the heart of his house.

A shiver ran down my spine, even though the room was warm. I couldn’t help but ask, “Why? But…why?” I felt a strong urge to protect it.

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