astonished - Story 10666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Three hours," Maria muttered, her voice barely audible. She felt a shock that reverberated through her bones. She couldn't believe it. This was… unreal.

Her coworker, Tom, looked at her with a raised eyebrow, a slight smirk playing on his lips. She wanted to scream. She had a mountain of work to get through.

She stared at the control panel, her eyes darting between the buttons. She wanted to press them all, see if that would change anything. Her hands trembled.

"Don't worry," Tom said, his voice calm. "They'll get us out." Maria didn't feel reassured. She felt as though the world had tilted. The absurdity of the situation overwhelmed her.

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