astonished - Story 10064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” David muttered, the word a mere whisper. He’d meticulously crafted his application, spending weeks perfecting it. Now, this… this was the response. He slowly lowered himself onto the edge of his bed, his legs suddenly feeling like lead. A knot formed in his stomach, twisting with a cold, sickening sensation. He felt a deep, hollow ache in his chest, as if something had been physically ripped away.

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