astonished - Story 10171 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation shimmered on Amelia's phone screen. "Cocktails at The Gilded Lily, celebrating my promotion!" it read, signed "Liam, Senior Vice President, Sterling Industries." Amelia nearly choked on her tea. *Senior Vice President?* Liam, the perpetually late, perpetually broke Liam, who swore he was a lowly data entry clerk at the library? She reread the message, her pulse hammering. This had to be some elaborate joke.

She arrived at the bar, the opulent setting a stark contrast to the ramen-noodle existence she'd always believed Liam inhabited. He was there, impeccably dressed, a dazzling smile plastered across his face. He extended a hand towards her, and she found herself staring, jaw slack. "Amelia! So glad you could make it!" His voice was warm, but her stomach churned.

"Liam," she finally managed, her voice barely a whisper. "What... what is all this?"

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