astonished - Story 10160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came in person, delivered by the hiring manager, a woman with a practiced smile. "We've been very impressed by both of you," she said, her voice resonating with professional warmth. "So, we're pleased to offer the position to... both of you."

David's jaw dropped. He turned to Sarah, who looked equally dumbfounded. He felt a weird sensation. The world seemed to twist around him.

The hiring manager continued to outline the details of the offer, but David found himself unable to focus. His mind replayed every moment of the interview, searching for clues, for an explanation. It all felt unreal. The more he thought, the more disoriented he became.

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