astonished - Story 10626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Ben muttered under his breath, leaning closer to his phone screen. His eyes darted around the quiet classroom. Mr. Carter, his math teacher, had started following him on the platform. The world around him felt suddenly out of focus. He wasn’t sure how to react to this information.

He had no idea Mr. Carter was even on there. Ben felt a knot tighten in his stomach. What if he saw all the posts about how hard math was? Or, even worse, the ones where he and his friends made jokes about the teacher? He was frozen.

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