astonished - Story 10592 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d imagined this moment a thousand times, each a vibrant tapestry of champagne and celebration. Now, the reality felt more like a punch to the gut. The rejection letter, folded neatly on his desk, felt heavy, like a lead weight. He sat back in his chair, the leather squeaking in protest. His carefully crafted world, the one he’d poured his soul into, seemed to tilt on its axis. He slowly ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did.

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