astonished - Story 10601 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick with dust and the scent of forgotten things. Sarah coughed, pulling a faded shoebox from under a moth-eaten trunk. Inside, nestled amongst brittle tissue paper, were photographs. She flipped one over. On the back, in her grandmother's familiar, elegant script, it read: "Great Aunt Millie's Debutante Ball, 1928." But the woman in the photograph wasn't Millie. It was a woman with a mischievous glint in her eyes, perched on a motorcycle, wearing leather pants and a wide grin. A slow smile spread across Sarah's face; then, she began to laugh.

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