astonished - Story 10278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, jolting him from his work. "Paul, you have a meeting with the CEO," the secretary’s voice said. Paul frowned. What was this about? He’d been working at his desk, with nothing on the schedule.

He found himself sitting across from the CEO in the man’s imposing office. The CEO cleared his throat. Paul braced himself. "We’ve decided," the CEO began, and paused for dramatic effect, "to move you to the shipping and receiving department."

Paul felt a tremor run through him. Shipping and receiving? After years of working in upper management? His mouth opened, but no sound came out. He swallowed hard. The CEO was still talking, but his words were muffled.

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