astonished - Story 10193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the PTA meeting seemed to buzz louder, the faces of the other parents blurring around the edges. Maria stared at the handout, the letters of the teacher's name swimming before her eyes. Mr. Peterson. It couldn't be. Not *the* Mr. Peterson.

A knot formed in her stomach. That same Mr. Peterson, the man who’d given her a D in algebra and made her cry on multiple occasions. She suddenly felt a pang of a childish insecurity as she recalled him.

She swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. She watched him, from her seat in the back row, as he greeted a new parent with a bright smile. She felt a weird mixture of confusion and disbelief.

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