astonished - Story 10145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty parking space was the first clue. Then, the office door was locked, a sign taped to it: *Closed for the foreseeable future.* I felt a hot flush crawl up my neck. I pounded on the door, yelling for Ms. Rodriguez, my supervisor, but there was no response. My hands clenched into fists. I replayed our last conversation, searching for any hint, any indication, of this sudden departure. The weight of the building seemed to press down on me, the silence deafening.

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