astonished - Story 10337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," whispered David, as he stared at the printed notice taped to the door of The Spice Merchant. He felt a sudden, inexplicable weakness, as though his legs might give way.

He ran his hand through his hair, a gesture he often made when flustered. The news was completely unexpected. He felt a cold dread creep into his core.

He leaned against the wall, trying to steady himself, his gaze fixated on the paper that carried such devastating news. He replayed all the special moments he had at the restaurant in his mind, and the memories were like a sharp stab in his heart.

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