astonished - Story 10617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The temperature in the room had suddenly spiked. Her face felt flushed, her breath coming in shallow gasps. Her father, her stoic, dependable father, was ready to hang up his tools. *Finished?* This was supposed to be a future decades away, a timeline she hadn't prepared for. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles whitening.

She could barely bring herself to meet his eye. He was beaming, radiating joy. He looked… happy. She blinked, feeling a prickling sensation behind her eyes. Time seemed to have warped.

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