astonished - Story 10514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm sorry, Jake," Coach Thompson had said, his voice flat. He hated these conversations. Jake’s shoulders slumped, his face losing all of its color.

Jake’s usual swagger vanished. He stood, frozen, for what felt like an eternity. His eyes darted around the room, as if searching for an escape route. He stammered, "But...but I thought... I was sure..."

Coach Thompson watched him, a knot forming in his stomach. The boy's face twisted into a mask of pure bewilderment. He couldn't remember a time he'd seen such confusion on the field before.

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