astonished - Story 10665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lights went out, plunging the elevator into near darkness. Three hours. The words echoed in Ben's head. He felt utterly… stunned. His coworker, Carol, gasped.

He could feel his pulse quickening. He wasn't afraid of the dark. But the sheer improbability of it all… The world had shifted on its axis. He felt as though he'd been given a script for a play and found it to be utterly insane.

He took a step, unsure where to go. The air felt heavy, and the silence only amplified his unease. He felt a weird, disconnected sensation in his chest.

"Well," Carol said, her voice trembling slightly. "This is a fine mess." Ben could only agree, his mind racing, trying to catch up with the reality of the situation.

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