astonished - Story 10624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam blinked rapidly, rereading the notification. Mrs. Rodriguez, his English teacher, had accepted his follow request. His stomach did a weird flip-flop. He’d only started using the app recently. Now, she would see everything: his memes, his rants about the school cafeteria food, the pictures of him and his friends.

He ran a hand through his hair, his mind whirling. He didn't know what to do. Maybe he should delete everything? Or maybe… maybe he should be on his best behavior? This was so awkward. He felt a weird pressure building up in his chest.

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