astonished - Story 10482 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the late afternoon sun, illuminating the air around the skeletal frame of the house. Michael ran a hand through his thinning hair, his eyes wide. He’d driven past this street a thousand times in the past decade, but always averted his gaze. Today, he’d forced himself to stop. The house, his father’s work, was an empty shell, windows like vacant eyes. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips, an urge to reach out and touch the peeling paint, the crumbling brick.

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