astonished - Story 10528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop around him blurred. Daniel blinked, trying to focus on the accusations against the author he admired. Eira Blackwood, whose novels had changed his view of the world. The accusation, that she'd plagiarized a student's thesis? Utterly impossible. And yet… the evidence.

He leaned forward, his elbows on the table, trying to make sense of the comparison screenshots. His stomach churned. He’d even written to her. Now, the words felt like they were being spat back at him.

He felt the temperature in the cafe rise. He needed to get out. He rose, pushing his chair back with a loud scrape, and almost ran from the establishment, the words of the article swirling in his mind.

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