astonished - Story 10273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. Emily, currently immersed in a spreadsheet, felt a jolt run through her. Swallowing hard, she clicked on the link. Her eyes widened. The legal department? After her years of research and development?

Her heart began to pound against her ribs. She felt as though the blood was rushing to her face. She blinked, wanting to make sure she was seeing things correctly. The shift in scenery felt surreal, as if she were viewing the world through distorted glass.

"This is..." she began, the words catching in her throat, the sentence dying before it could be finished. A nervous laugh escaped her lips. What would she *do* in a legal department?

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