astonished - Story 10775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The solicitor’s voice, usually so measured, seemed to crack. Across the room, Lily watched her brother, James, fidget in his chair. Her own fingers were drumming a rapid rhythm against the table.

“And for Mr. James…" The solicitor gestured towards a heavy, wooden box. James leaned forward, his eyes bright with anticipation. The box held a collection of rare, vintage cars.

Lily's heart did a sudden, erratic dance. Her inheritance, in comparison, seemed frivolous. She had received a collection of comic books. She gaped at the lawyer, then at James, her jaw slack.

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