astonished - Story 10168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of roses and perfume suddenly felt cloying, suffocating. I felt a strange buzzing in my ears. I saw her, standing near the gift table, chatting animatedly with the bride’s mother. It was impossible. It couldn't be her. Jessica.

My voice caught in my throat. I felt a tightness in my chest, making it difficult to breathe. My carefully curated calmness, the serene facade I'd painstakingly constructed, shattered into a million pieces.

I gripped my clutch so hard my knuckles turned white. Her gaze drifted toward me, and her eyes widened ever so slightly.

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