astonished - Story 10735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph in Leo's hand trembled, the edges blurring. It was a picture of him and Daniel, laughing, covered in mud from their last camping trip. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, a tightness that constricted his breathing. Daniel's announcement - "I’m joining the Air Force, and I'm shipping out in a few weeks" - swirled around in his mind.

He gripped the photo tighter, knuckles white. The past few weeks he had felt different, a sense of doom he couldn't put his finger on. Now it all made sense.

He felt a hot sting behind his eyes, a sensation he hadn't experienced in years. He couldn’t speak.

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