astonished - Story 10301 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet shimmered in Clara's hand. She blinked, refocusing on the numbers. Thirty-eight thousand dollars more? For the same job? Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She reread the entry: “David Chen, Junior Analyst… $95,000.” Clara’s own salary, listed a few lines above, stubbornly displayed $57,000. She felt a heat creep up her neck, a flush of utter disbelief. She had been at the firm for six years!

“Excuse me,” Clara stammered, her voice thin, as she caught sight of her manager walking past. She felt compelled to say something, but the words caught in her throat. She had been feeling confident just minutes ago.

Her hand trembled as she slowly closed the file and then promptly took a deep breath. She had to stay calm. She'd be sick to her stomach if she wasn't careful.

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