astonished - Story 10424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd just finished the dishes when the mail arrived. The single envelope looked out of place amongst the bills and junk mail. He flipped it over. "Eastview High School - 10 Year Reunion." He nearly dropped the soapy sponge.

He leaned against the counter, a coldness spreading through his limbs. The last time he'd seen most of those people, he was… well, he was a different person. An embarrassed flush crept up his neck.

He scanned the invitation, the details swimming before his eyes. A buffet, open bar, and a DJ. He gripped the edge of the counter, feeling a sudden need to flee the room.

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