astonished - Story 10280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning meeting was going as planned, and then the email arrived. John glanced down at his phone, a frown appearing on his face. The subject line was… concerning. He opened it. "Reorganization Announcement."

His eyes widened, and his grip on his phone tightened. He felt his heart skip a beat. He was being moved to the mailroom. His mind reeled. The color drained from his face.

"No, no, no," he whispered, shaking his head. This couldn’t be happening. He felt a profound sense of disorientation, and his surroundings seemed to shift. He felt as though he was falling.

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