astonished - Story 10276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"To: All Employees," the email began. Karen felt a fluttering in her stomach as she read the subject line: "Organizational Realignment." She had a bad feeling. A very bad feeling.

Her pulse quickened as she saw her name. She was being moved from the research lab to the customer service department. Her fingers tightened around the mouse. Customer service? The department she actively avoided like the plague?

She felt a wave of heat rush to her cheeks. She was going to need to sit down. She pushed back from her desk, the chair screeching on the linoleum floor. Her vision blurred, and the office seemed to spin.

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