astonished - Story 10543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Carol. She’d found it buried in her son, Ben's, browser history – a profile linked to an anonymous email she’d never seen before. The content was… provocative. The language, coarse. The subject matter, disturbing.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain behind her eyes. Images of Ben, her sweet, gentle son, flooded her mind, then were swiftly replaced by the images on the screen.

She swallowed hard, the taste of bile rising in her throat. She closed the laptop, a sense of profound unease settling in her stomach. What had she missed? What else didn't she know?

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