astonished - Story 10889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer arrived in the mail, promoting the community theater's gala. It featured a list of sponsors, and there, at the top, was "The Miller Foundation." It took Clara a moment. Miller. The Millers. Her neighbors.

She looked out her window, at their modest, yet well-kept house. The Millers, who always brought her a pie on Thanksgiving. Who always seemed so… ordinary.

She read the flyer again. The Miller Foundation was underwriting the entire event. A sudden chill ran down her spine. They were funding scholarships, art programs, and community outreach. Her gaze drifted back to her own, humble living room. A sense of profound disorientation settled over her. How had she missed it?

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