astonished - Story 10776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stuffy air in the room was almost suffocating. Thomas sat opposite his sister, Eleanor. She'd been staring out the window, a small frown etched on her forehead. The lawyer, a portly man, adjusted his tie.

"For Mr. Thomas…" The lawyer presented a thick, sealed envelope. Inside was a substantial sum of cash. Thomas, the practical one, nodded slightly.

Eleanor was handed a worn, leather-bound journal. Her face went pale as she flipped it open. Her grandfather's old travel logs. She looked from her journal to the stack of money, her mouth opening and closing soundlessly.

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