astonished - Story 10155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We have some excellent news," the hiring manager declared, her smile wide and genuine. "We're pleased to announce that we're offering the project manager position to...both you and David." Sarah almost fell out of her chair.

She turned to look at David. He looked as equally confused as she felt. His usually confident demeanor had evaporated, replaced by a stunned silence. Sarah felt a peculiar fluttering in her stomach. It was like something she had never experienced.

The hiring manager launched into a detailed explanation of the company’s plans, but Sarah couldn’t focus. Two project managers? What did this mean? Was it some kind of joke? She leaned forward, desperate to understand what was happening.

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