astonished - Story 10662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He blinked, several times, as the lights flickered and died. Three hours. The maintenance guy's assessment hung in the air, heavy and ridiculous. David, usually a picture of composure, felt a cold wave wash over him.

Sarah, his coworker, looked at him with a mixture of amusement and… something else. He found his own face muscles working oddly, a nervous tic starting at his left eye. What now? He thought, the question echoing in the confined metal box.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he usually reserved for moments of intense frustration. This felt… different. He felt as if his body had forgotten how to function.

"Well," Sarah said, her voice unusually loud, echoing in the metal box, "this is a pickle." David simply nodded, feeling his palms begin to sweat. He didn't know how to proceed. His mind felt blank.

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