astonished - Story 10107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice caught in her throat. The words hung in the air, a poisonous vapor. He wanted to scream. "You want me to what?" she finally managed, her voice a reedy whisper. The CEO merely smiled and gestured toward the nervous-looking intern.

She felt a wave of nausea. The sunlight streaming through the window now seemed too bright, too intrusive. Everything around her blurred and swam. The thought, *this can't be happening*, echoed repeatedly in her mind.

She gripped the edge of the desk, fighting the urge to collapse. She had worked for this company for 15 years, and this was how they treated her.

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