astonished - Story 10880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring, and the more he stared, the more his vision blurred. He felt a rising heat in his neck. The painting, *Forgotten Paths*, was hung in a prominent location at the charity auction. It was his. The style, the textures, the subject matter, the way the light hit it. This was his work. He couldn't tear his eyes away. His head was swimming. His legs felt like lead. He didn't know how he was still standing. He gulped down a breath.

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