astonished - Story 10272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the memo, his eyebrows practically disappearing into his hairline. He reread the subject line: “Departmental Reassignment – Information Technology.” He wasn’t in IT. He was in Human Resources. This had to be a joke.

He felt his stomach clench. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't noticed he had. He thought of all the technical jargon, the code, the… the *machines*. A cold dread crept up his spine.

“No way,” he muttered under his breath, his voice barely a whisper. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to check his pulse. He pressed his fingers against his neck, counting the beats. This wasn’t right. This couldn’t be right. He felt completely adrift.

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