astonished - Story 10556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A snake?" Mark said, his voice cracking. He stared at the glass terrarium, a long, slender reptile coiled within it. His roommate, John, was gazing upon his new purchase with a strange pride.

His heart thumped erratically. He stepped backward, a primal fear seizing him. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him cold. He had specifically stated his hatred of snakes.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few strands of it. It was a joke, surely. A terrible, cruel joke. His mouth opened and closed soundlessly.

John beamed. "Meet Slinky!"

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