astonished - Story 10040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the book, his jaw slack, his face pale. *The Untold Story of Robert Miller*. He’d never even considered… He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. He felt a cold wash of adrenaline, a sudden rush of blood to his head. He reread the title, then the first sentence, then the title again.

He wanted to throw up. He wanted to scream. He wanted to vanish. He felt… exposed. He felt… violated. He felt a deep, profound sense of unease that settled in his stomach like a stone. He slowly put the book down, his gaze fixed on nothing.

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