astonished - Story 10275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message blinked at him from his computer screen. "Congratulations," it read. "You've been selected for a lateral transfer...to the janitorial staff." David blinked. He read it again. And again.

He felt a strange lightness in his chest. His hands went numb, and he leaned forward. His breath quickened. The words swam before his eyes. He had been a team leader in finance for a decade, and now... janitorial?

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. "What in the…" he mumbled, his voice trailing off. His whole body felt as if it had been injected with ice water. This couldn’t be real.

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