astonished - Story 10210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reality of the situation slammed into him with the force of a tidal wave. He stared, completely frozen. The car was gone. His vehicle, the reliable vehicle he took pride in, was just… absent. He stood there, speechless, his eyes wide.

He slowly walked forward, as if he could will the car to reappear. He ran his hand over the pavement where it had been parked. He felt a wave of dizziness. He couldn’t process this.

He clenched his teeth, his jaw visibly tightened. His usual composed demeanor had evaporated. He felt a burning sensation in his eyes, a sensation he couldn't name.

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