astonished - Story 10429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through his morning coffee when the envelope arrived. He tore it open, expecting a bill. "Oakwood Academy – 5 Year Reunion." He blinked, the coffee suddenly bitter.

Five years. It felt like yesterday he was stumbling through those hallways, feeling lost and awkward. Now… now he was supposed to be a success story?

He pushed the chair away from the table, a feeling of deep unease settling over him. He felt the phantom pressure of expectations, the weight of judgment. He poured the rest of the coffee down the sink. He didn’t want any.

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