astonished - Story 10310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting it. James felt the color drain from his face as he read the email. A team member's salary details had been accidentally included in a memo. There, in black and white: "Ryan Miller, IT Specialist… $90,000." James's head swam. He had been with the company for fifteen years!

He felt a surge of heat rising from his chest. His hands clenched into fists. He had mentored Ryan! He'd taught him everything he knew. The injustice of it all felt like a physical blow.

James stood up abruptly, knocking his chair over. He needed to leave. He needed to go for a walk.

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