astonished - Story 10158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived late in the evening, the subject line promising good news. Maria opened it with a mix of excitement and trepidation. She scrolled down, her eyes scanning the familiar formatting. It was the offer letter. The excitement turned quickly to a confused state of mind.

*...and we are also pleased to welcome, Alex…* Maria felt the blood drain from her face. She blinked, rereading the sentence several times. *Alex?* This was not what she anticipated.

She leaned back in her chair, her fingers drumming nervously on the desk. She suddenly felt exhausted, as though she had run a marathon. Her gaze drifted across the room, focusing on a picture of her and Alex, taken years ago. She was bewildered.

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