astonished - Story 10186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen it. A quick glance at the notification bar of Karen's phone when she'd left it on the kitchen table. He hadn't meant to look. Just a flash – a name, "Jared." He knew no Jared. Now, he couldn't stop the thoughts swirling in his head. His mind raced.

He walked into the garden, trying to clear his head, but the image of that notification was burned into his memory. The sky seemed a little too bright, the birdsong a little too loud. He gripped the edge of the picnic table, his knuckles white. This couldn't be happening.

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