astonished - Story 10174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed with a thud in Mark's inbox: a company-wide announcement. "Congratulations to our new Chief Technology Officer, Peter Hanson." A picture of Peter, looking impossibly smug, stared back at him. Mark nearly spat out his coffee. *Peter Hanson?* Peter, who had always claimed to be a freelance web designer, patching together websites in his spare time?

He frantically scrolled through his past emails, searching for some explanation, some clue. The man he thought he knew, the one who complained endlessly about freelance gigs and client headaches, didn't exist? A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt betrayed, foolish.

He looked around the office, at the familiar faces, now tinted with a strange new significance. Had everyone known?

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