astonished - Story 10963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, folded piece of paper felt incredibly heavy in her hand. Liam had dropped it, mid-laundry folding, and she'd absentmindedly picked it up. Now, unfolding it, she felt a jolt. "Things to Do Before I..." the title began. Her stomach lurched.

He wanted to see the Northern Lights. He wanted to learn to surf. He wanted to adopt a puppy. Each item was a punch to the gut. The casual tone of his handwriting belied a hidden, adventurous spirit that she hadn't realized he possessed.

She slowly sank onto the bed, the paper now crumpled in her fist. He’d always seemed so content, so settled. This new information made her feel...unmoored. The final entry: "Tell her I love her, even if it's scary." Tears pricked her eyes.

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