astonished - Story 10035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mrs. Gable, watched Sarah’s reaction with a curious gaze. Sarah, usually so composed, had gone rigid, her face a mask of disbelief. The book lay open on the table, *Sarah Jenkins: A Life in Libraries*. The words swam before her eyes. It was a fictionalized account, a reimagining of her life that… that felt like a betrayal.

She felt a cold dread seep through her. She felt vulnerable, exposed, like a bug pinned under glass. She clutched the table, her knuckles white. She looked around the library, suddenly aware of the people around her, their eyes potentially on her.

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