astonished - Story 10490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar squeak of the front gate, now rusted and groaning with disuse, grated against her nerves. Margaret had insisted on a final visit. She stared at the house, a pale imitation of its former self, from the passenger seat of the car. Her knuckles were white where they gripped the armrest. It felt so…wrong. She found herself struggling to swallow, as if something were lodged in her throat. She found herself unable to speak at all.

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