astonished - Story 10207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her blood ran cold. The absence was glaring. The crimson hatchback, her loyal companion, was gone. Her breath hitched. She took a step towards the empty spot, then another. The feeling was like being plunged into ice water.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She gripped the edge of the porch railing to steady herself. Her mind struggled to process this blatant alteration in the status quo. It made no sense. It violated the natural order.

She pressed her lips together, her entire body rigid. Her eyes narrowed. "No," she stated to herself, her voice a low growl, "this isn't real."

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