astonished - Story 10876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David’s heart thudded against his ribs like a trapped bird. He'd been working on that ceramic bowl for a year, pouring his soul into its delicate curves and intricate patterns. Now, there it was, sitting on a display table at the craft fair, labeled with someone else's name. A sense of unreality swamped him. He couldn't believe it. He felt paralyzed, unable to speak or move, his eyes locked on the familiar yet alien object.

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