astonished - Story 10105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed to the small, sterile office. The request, delivered with an unsettling cheerfulness, triggered an immediate and involuntary tightening in her chest. She couldn't believe it. This was an insult.

She could feel the blood draining from her face. Her hands felt numb. The room around her seemed to spin.

The words "It's the natural order of things," drifted through her ears, but their meaning failed to penetrate the fog that was rapidly consuming her thoughts. She stared, dumbfounded, at the woman who was soon to be her replacement.

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