astonished - Story 10246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d walked into the clinic with a mild headache. Now, he felt the world shift. Michael leaned back in his chair, staring up at the ceiling tiles. He felt the air leave his lungs. This couldn't be happening. His medical history was tangled with someone else's?

The doctor's tone was all reassurances, but the information felt like a punch to the gut. Michael felt a sudden urge to laugh, a hysterical, bubbling sound that threatened to escape. Instead, he swallowed hard, his throat tight.

He wanted to be angry, to demand answers. But all he could feel was a profound disorientation. The clinic lights seemed to dim.

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