astonished - Story 10968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that was suddenly grating. The notebook lay open on the kitchen counter. It was hers. "Bucket List – Chloe." He felt a strange tension in his neck.

"Write a children's book." "Learn to play the piano." "See a live opera." He felt a tightening in his chest. Chloe, the logical, the pragmatic one.

He felt as though he was seeing her for the very first time. He read and reread each entry, his mind unable to grasp its contents. "Tell him I need more from him" was the final line, his heart skipping a beat. He felt the color drain from his face.

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