astonished - Story 10183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone jolted Chloe from her comfortable Sunday afternoon. It was Ben's phone. He was in the shower. She almost didn’t answer it. It was a number she didn't recognise. Curiosity, a very unwelcome guest, got the better of her. The voice on the other end was female, hushed, asking for Ben. Chloe's world tilted.

She quickly hung up. Her palms started to sweat. She heard the shower turn off. Ben was coming. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the sudden quiet of the apartment. She was paralyzed, rooted to the spot.

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