astonished - Story 10591 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Eleanor’s inbox, a stark white rectangle against the gentle gradient of her desktop wallpaper. Her dream publisher. She took a slow, deliberate breath, and clicked. The rejection was polite, even complimentary, but the words blurred into meaningless shapes the moment she understood their import. Her fingers, usually so deft on the keyboard, fumbled as she tried to close the window. It wouldn't. She stared at it, the cursor blinking, a tiny, accusing judge. Her vision swam.

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