astonished - Story 10500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realization struck Maya like a physical blow. The device she'd toiled over, her dream of creating a universal translator, was now the property of a global conglomerate. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of rage and profound disappointment. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to rend something with her bare hands. She slumped into the chair, the air seeming suddenly thin and hard to breathe. The vibrant colors of her workshop blurred before her tear-filled eyes.

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