astonished - Story 10817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brochure lay on the table. *"Finding peace within,"* it read. Inside was a picture, a smiling face. A face he knew all too well. It was Ben, the boy who used to steal his lunch money and trip him in the hallways. The image on the brochure was jarring.

He reread the brochure, his brow furrowed. He felt a weird, disconnected sensation in his limbs. A jumble of images and memories flashed behind his eyelids. He found himself laughing, a shaky, hollow sound. Then he ran his hands through his hair, his mouth agape.

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