astonished - Story 10563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, a little red notification in the corner of Maya’s screen. Curious, she clicked. It was from Chloe. A party invitation. Maya scanned the details, her breath hitching. *“A Night Under the Stars, Celebrating Chloe’s Birthday.”* Same date. Maya’s carefully crafted escape room experience, the culmination of weeks of planning, evaporated in a puff of… bewilderment.

She leaned back in her chair, the sudden stillness amplifying the rhythmic thud of her heart. She hadn’t even realized Chloe knew her birthday was on the same day. The world seemed to tilt slightly.

“Okay,” she whispered, her voice sounding thin and reedy.

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