astonished - Story 10078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It happened during a work conference. He thought nothing of it until he heard a familiar laugh cut through the noise. It was "CodeCrusader," the coder he’d been collaborating with on the side project for months.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His pulse quickened. The person who'd helped him through every frustrating line of code, the person he had been planning to meet, was standing directly in front of him. He could almost feel his heart start to pound like a drum.

He felt his voice catch in his throat. He cleared it and stammered, "Hey... CodeCrusader?"

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