astonished - Story 10606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The album fell open, revealing a photograph of his grandmother, a renowned schoolteacher, posing in a silk dress he had never seen before. Behind her, in the background, was a bar. His cousin, John, looked up from the album. “Whoa,” he blurted. “I thought she was a teetotaler.” He stared at the photograph, his jaw dropping. The image was such a contrast to her reputation as a very serious woman who never did anything “wrong”. He felt like he'd been punched in the gut.

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