astonished - Story 10034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office seemed to spin as David read the final page. *David Chen: The Reluctant Hero*. Hero? He hadn't rescued any kittens from trees. He wasn’t a firefighter. He was an accountant, a man of numbers and spreadsheets. His mind reeled. He couldn't grasp the scale of the deception.

He leaned back in his chair, the room suddenly too small, too close. He wanted to scream. Or laugh. Or maybe just disappear. He felt like he was underwater, everything muffled and distorted. He swallowed hard. The biography… it was a portrait, but not of him.

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