astonished - Story 10138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold wave of icy terror surged through Ethan. His legs felt weak, and he had the sensation of falling. He had always been so careful, so conscientious. The very suggestion that he had cheated felt like a betrayal of his own character.

He fumbled with his pen, dropping it onto the floor with a loud clatter that seemed to shatter the silence. He stared at the professor, his eyes wide, his expression a mixture of disbelief and utter bewilderment. The room began to spin.

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