astonished - Story 10723 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can I borrow your old sewing basket?" Sarah's voice, usually bright, sounded strangely hollow. She'd been helping her mother organize her things. That was when she found it, tucked inside a worn copy of "Pride and Prejudice": a formal letter typed on fancy stationary.

Her jaw dropped slightly. The words were simple, but the content was jarring. It was her mother's resignation from a high-powered law firm – a firm she’d spoken of with pride and a degree of satisfaction, before she quit to be a stay-at-home-mom.

Sarah blinked, the scene blurring. Why? It was like looking at a fractured mirror. She reached for the letter, her fingers brushing the embossed crest. What was missing from the story?

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