astonished - Story 10779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was vast, the air heavy with unspoken expectations. The legal representative began, his voice flat and monotonous. My brother, Arthur, sat beside me, his usual smirk in place.

"For Mr. Arthur," the representative announced. Arthur’s face lit up as he received a lavish yacht.

My own inheritance was a collection of blank notebooks. I ran a hand through my hair, a strange sensation prickling at the back of my neck. I looked from my brother’s wide smile to the notebooks, and felt something twist inside me.

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