astonished - Story 10135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. Amelia’s pupils dilated, her eyes wide with bewilderment. She’d always prided herself on her academic integrity, on her unwavering commitment to honesty. The accusation was a slap in the face. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks.

She unconsciously ran a hand through her hair, tangling it further. The library, normally a sanctuary of knowledge, now felt like a prison. The silence amplified the pounding in her ears. Each carefully constructed sentence of the professor’s explanation felt like a personal attack.

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