astonished - Story 10199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A slow, creeping sensation of disbelief crept up her spine. Susan studied the class list. Mrs. Miller. The woman who made her write lines for talking in class. The woman who’d sent her home in tears more than once.

Her gaze traveled to her daughter, Mia, who was beaming with anticipation. Susan suddenly felt a familiar sense of dread. She bit her lip.

"Are you excited, sweetie?" she asked, her voice sounding a little strained.

Mia nodded enthusiastically. "Yes! I heard she's the best teacher!"

Susan just stared at her, feeling a knot of uncertainty tightening in her stomach.

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