astonished - Story 10667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news from the operator was delivered with such casualness that it was almost comical. Three hours. Ethan felt his stomach lurch. This was absurd. He was speechless.

Across from him, his coworker, Lisa, had her hands clasped tightly in front of her, her knuckles white. He hadn't seen her like this before. He felt a strange mixture of concern and… incredulity.

He began to pace the confined space, his thoughts a chaotic jumble. This was a scene from a bad movie.

He stopped, looked at Lisa, and felt a strange urge to laugh. What else could he do? This situation was beyond belief.

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