astonished - Story 10443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Emily reeled back, clutching the crumpled paper to her chest. Her private words, sprawled in her messy handwriting, were now exposed. Across the room, Chloe, her roommate, was nonchalantly scrolling through her phone. A flush crept up Emily's neck, spreading a heat that made her want to claw at her skin.

Emily cleared her throat, her voice cracking. "Did... did you read that?" she stammered, the words barely audible. Chloe looked up, her expression quickly morphing into a mask of innocent surprise. "Read what? Oh, that? I saw it on the floor. Is everything okay?" Emily wanted to scream, to run.

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