astonished - Story 10269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whistle's shrill sound seemed to pierce the sudden, heavy quiet. His ears rang. Michael stood rooted to the spot, his muscles stiffening. He'd imagined this day so many times, rehearsing the feeling of elation, the pride. Now, a deep ache settled in his chest, a profound sense of emptiness. He blinked rapidly, the familiar faces of his teammates blurring through unshed tears. The cheering of those selected felt remote, hollow, like a sound from another world.

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