astonished - Story 10550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." Jennifer whispered to herself. Her daughter, Maya, always seemed so… *there*. In the moment, engaged, present. Now, she had concrete proof that Maya was building a separate life.

The account was not what Jennifer was expecting. It was not illicit, or even particularly rebellious. It was… different. The photos revealed a side of Maya she hadn't seen before; a funny, creative, vibrant young woman.

Jennifer felt a strange pull of conflicting emotions. A smile played on her lips, then vanished. She took a deep breath, and stood, and began to pace. She needed to understand.

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