astonished - Story 10068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The café buzzed with the usual Friday afternoon chatter, but for Liam, the world had gone silent. He’d been so sure, so confident. He reread the rejection email again, the words leaping off the screen and stabbing at him. He felt a flush of heat rise to his cheeks. He pushed his chair back, the scraping sound loud in his ears, and the coffee shop around him blurred, a kaleidoscope of faces and sounds. He felt utterly adrift.

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