astonished - Story 10546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza stared at the phone screen, unable to look away. Her son, Ethan, never seemed interested in social media, always claiming it was "fake and shallow." Now, she had proof that he'd been lying, the account hidden under a username she didn’t recognize.

Her gaze flitted between the photos. He was hanging out with a group of friends she'd never seen before. His style was different. His smile, strained.

She felt like she was standing on shifting ground. She needed to sit down, and she did, landing heavily on the bed. What was going on?

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