astonished - Story 10195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, faded and creased, stared back at her. Lisa stared at the picture of her, aged eight, grinning beside a stern-looking woman with perfectly coiffed hair. Miss Elsworth. The woman she had dreaded every day for four years.

Now, her son, Michael, was going to be under Miss Elsworth's tutelage.

A cold dread crept over her. She blinked, feeling as though the world had tilted on its axis. She suddenly understood how it felt to be the one on the receiving end of the teacher's gaze.

She couldn't help but wonder if Miss Elsworth was still as frightening.

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