astonished - Story 10961 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah rummaged through the drawer, looking for the flashlight. It was tucked away, next to a faded, leather-bound notebook. She pulled it out, intending to put it away, but then the title caught her eye: "Bucket List - Michael." Her heart hammered. Michael never spoke about bucket lists.

She flipped the cover open, breath catching in her throat. The handwriting was unmistakably his, neat and precise. The first entry: "Learn to play the ukulele." What? Michael, a burly accountant, wanting to play the ukulele?

A strange heat prickled her skin. Further down, she read, "Swim with sharks." She knew Michael was terrified of the ocean. This was a side of him she hadn't known existed. The list went on, each entry more perplexing than the last, culminating in the final, scrawled sentence: "Tell Sarah how much she means to me, even if I'm afraid."

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