astonished - Story 10512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d expected a fight. He’d prepped his speech, every persuasive argument ready. But the look on David's face was… something else. Coach Reynolds had just delivered the news – David wasn’t making the team. The boy stared blankly, jaw slack.

"I... I don't understand," David finally mumbled, his voice thin and reedy.

He had always been the star player. David had dominated every practice, every scrimmage. Reynolds had thought him a lock. Now, the weight of his decision pressed down on him. David's eyes, usually alight with competitive fire, were dull, glazed. Reynolds felt a sudden, inexplicable chill.

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