astonished - Story 10702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of… disbelief, maybe? That’s all she could summon, washed over Daniel. Sarah, from accounting, was talking about the talent show at Camp Clearwater. The Talent Show? The one he'd won the year he turned eleven with a truly terrible magic act?

He gripped the edge of his desk, the wood suddenly feeling rough and unfamiliar. He knew that show. He also knew his act was awful.

"Clearwater? You were at Clearwater?" He hadn't meant to sound so loud, but the words practically leaped from his mouth. Sarah's eyebrows shot up.

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