astonished - Story 10036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the window, the book clutched in his hand. *The Enigma of John Blackwood*. John Blackwood. It sounded like someone else. He felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sensation of falling. He didn't understand. Why? Who would do this?

He sank to the floor, the book falling beside him. He felt… disoriented. The room tilted. He closed his eyes, his breathing shallow and rapid. He ran a hand over his face, trying to clear his head, but the sensation of being utterly, irrevocably, misunderstood clung to 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