astonished - Story 10955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mrs. Gable, a woman known for her placidity, nearly dropped the ancient scroll. It had been unearthed during renovations, and its discovery had sent a ripple of bewilderment through the library staff. She squinted, her usually calm face contorted in puzzlement. The script was unlike any she had encountered, the language unfathomable. It was addressed to her, by name, though signed by a person with a name she didn't recognize. A coldness settled into her bones, making her want to leave, right now. She forced herself to read the first line.

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