astonished - Story 10244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office, with its imposing mahogany desk and the scent of old paper, suddenly felt like a pressure cooker. David, a man known for his composure, felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. The lawyer was laying out the facts, the damning facts, regarding the mislabeled medical files.

He pushed his glasses up his nose, a nervous habit he hadn't used in ages. He felt a hollowness in his stomach. The lawyer droned on about legal repercussions and potential damages.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to stop the world from spinning. The entire situation was unbelievable. His carefully constructed life, built on a foundation of health and stability, seemed to be crumbling around him.

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