astonished - Story 10475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box arrived on a Tuesday, just like the groceries. Liam, a creature of habit, nearly tossed it aside with the other mail. But something about the haphazardly taped flaps caught his eye. The address was for "Mr. Silas Blackwood," the name of the previous occupant, a man who, from what Liam knew, had vanished. Liam gingerly picked it up, his fingers suddenly clumsy. He pulled the flaps open and inhaled sharply. The box was empty, save for a small, intricately carved wooden raven.

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