astonished - Story 10484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d imagined this moment. He'd dreamt of it, even. Yet, as the first crack appeared in the living room wall, Daniel felt a jolt that ran up his spine. His fists clenched and unclenched. He wanted to shout, to scream, to run. Instead, he just stood there, the familiar scent of old wood and dust filling his nostrils, even though the air was now open to the sky. He could almost hear his mother's laughter echoing from the vacant rooms.

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