astonished - Story 10009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach turned. She’d been teaching an art class, explaining the fundamentals of perspective, when one of her students, a quiet, shy girl, proudly showed off a new tattoo. It was her own design, a piece she considered deeply personal, and it was perfectly replicated. On the girl’s wrist.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were observing herself from a distance. The room seemed to shrink. Her hands felt cold, clammy. She pressed them against her cheeks, trying to steady herself.

“I'm so sorry,” the girl stammered, “I should have asked first.”

Her mind struggled to process.

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