astonished - Story 10713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope, cream-colored and official-looking, lay discarded on the hallway table. Amelia had ripped it open with a manic energy, her fingers clumsy with anticipation. And then… the words. She froze, her eyes widening, her breath catching in her throat. The vibrant wallpaper seemed to dim, the familiar patterns becoming blurry and indistinct. A cold sweat slicked her skin. “Eviction?” she thought, a single word echoing in the sudden, echoing silence of the apartment.

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