astonished - Story 10013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 3:17 PM on Tuesday. A subject line that read: “Big News.” My cousin, Emily, had always been the pragmatic one, the voice of reason. A practical nurse. I reread the words, my eyes scanning the screen again and again. It was a formal announcement: she was beginning the process of becoming a Hare Krishna devotee.

I felt a coldness creep up my spine. My fingers fumbled with the mouse, scrolling down to the bottom of the message. I wanted to deny it. I felt the urgent need to call her. Then I just stared at my computer screen, paralyzed. I'm afraid I even let out a small, involuntary whimper.

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