astonished - Story 10615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach flipped. It felt like she'd just plummeted down a roller coaster, the sensation echoing in her ears. She hadn't even finished her coffee. Her father, a man of routine and consistency, was now… retiring. A life devoted to the civil service was over. It was… surreal. She found herself scanning the faces in the room, searching for some sign that this was all a dream.

She shifted her weight, the fabric of her dress twisting around her legs. She couldn't believe this was happening. It made no sense. She swallowed hard, trying to regain control. Then, somehow, she took a breath and began.

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