astonished - Story 10277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The HR manager cleared his throat, the sound echoing in the small office. "So," he began, a small smile playing on his lips, "we've decided to move you to a new role." Kevin, who’d been expecting a performance review, felt a sudden tightening in his chest.

He frowned. A new role? He was comfortable where he was, doing his project management. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. The manager was continuing, but the words seemed to blur.

"The art department," the manager said. Kevin felt as though someone had punched him in the stomach. He just nodded, his mind a complete blank.

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