astonished - Story 10849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just put the kettle on when there was a hammering on the door. It was the woman from next door, her face a thundercloud. "The basketball," she said, her voice strained. "It's relentless."

He, a man with no children, and a very small garden? He didn’t even *own* a basketball. He tilted his head, completely bewildered.

He gestured for her to come inside, and then closed the door, shaking his head. This was strange. Very strange. Perhaps someone had the wrong address. He went to make himself a cup of tea.

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