astonished - Story 10327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The review was a punch to the gut. It felt like a physical blow. Chef Liam stood frozen, the harsh words of the critic seeming to resonate inside of his head. He had believed in his creations. He had poured all of his energy into his restaurant. "Bland… uninspired… a waste of time and money," the critic had written of his innovative tasting menu. Liam's face was white. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips, and his vision blurred slightly.

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