astonished - Story 10324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, and Chef Evelyn froze. She didn't want to open it, didn't want to know. The critic’s words, though, already seemed to be echoing in her head. She slowly clicked on the message, her heart thrumming against her ribs. The review of her new tasting menu was a disaster. “Overambitious… pretentious… lacking in any discernible talent.” Evelyn felt her throat constrict. She felt a cold shiver, followed by a wave of nausea. She wanted to disappear, to sink into the floor.

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