astonished - Story 10336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you serious?” Emily's voice cracked, as she stared at the email on her laptop. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. “The Hungry Heron? Shutting down?”

She felt her heart begin to race, her chest tightening. The Heron was more than just a restaurant; it was a memory bank, a place filled with laughter, birthdays, and shared family moments. She felt herself flush with a mixture of disbelief and grief.

She slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt sound echoing in the silent room. She couldn't believe it. A tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek. She was left staring into nothingness.

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