astonished - Story 10427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on the kitchen table, a stark white rectangle against the worn wooden surface. "Pine Ridge High – 30th Reunion." Her hand trembled slightly as she reached for it.

Thirty years. The weight of the number pressed down on her. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to hide, to disappear. She felt exposed, vulnerable.

She walked over to the window, gazing out at the familiar street. Everything looked the same, and yet, somehow, everything was completely different. She felt a profound sense of disorientation, as though she had been transported to an alternate reality.

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