astonished - Story 10774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will was read under a harsh fluorescent light. Michael, arms crossed, shifted uncomfortably in his chair. Across from him, his sister, Sarah, remained composed. The lawyer cleared his throat.

"For Michael," he said, and presented a framed document. It detailed a large plot of land, ready for development. Michael, the businessman, felt a flicker of satisfaction.

His gaze flicked toward Sarah. She was holding a collection of antique cameras. The lawyer said, "And for Sarah… the complete photographic archive of…" She looked at the cameras and at the lawyer, her face suddenly blank. She slowly shook her head, as if something didn’t make sense.

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