astonished - Story 10847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, hand-delivered by Mrs. Peterson. It accused him of disruptive renovations. But he was pretty sure he didn't do any renovations this year.

He felt the blood drain from his face as he read it. *Construction? Hammering?* He lived in a tiny cottage. He hadn’t touched a single thing in ages. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to double-check his door locks.

He tried to recall any recent projects, any work he might have had done. His mind drew a blank. His palms were suddenly slick with sweat. He was truly taken aback.

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