astonished - Story 10869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly choked on his tea. Mr. Olsen, a man of few emotions, stared at the framed photograph on his desk. It was a picture of him, taken years ago, with a student, Marcus. Marcus had never been the brightest, but he'd been kind. Now, a successful entrepreneur, he had dedicated his next business to his old teacher.

He put the photograph back down. He felt a lump form in his throat. He glanced at the framed dedication, a tight knot forming in his stomach.

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