astonished - Story 10773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the assets are to be divided," the woman with the severe bun said, her voice flat. The room, filled with the scent of lilies, was oppressively quiet. Across the polished table, Leo stared intently. His sister, Maya, fiddled with the ornate clasp of her handbag.

"For Mr. Leo…" the woman continued, then paused dramatically. Maya leaned forward. A look of sheer bewilderment bloomed on her face as the woman presented Leo with a complex, antique musical instrument. A harpsichord.

Maya, usually so composed, let out a startled, "Oh!" Her own inheritance? Her own inheritance was a pile of unopened bank statements. She could only imagine what her brother was thinking.

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