astonished - Story 10668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speaker crackled, and the voice announced the impossible. Three hours. Sarah felt a peculiar fluttering in her chest. She stared at the emergency button, then at her coworker, James.

James just shrugged and sighed, seemingly unbothered. Sarah found herself unable to speak, the words caught in her throat. She felt like she'd stepped into a parallel dimension, where the laws of reality didn't apply.

She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to regain her composure. When she opened them, she felt a profound sense of bewilderment.

"Are you kidding me?" she finally managed to blurt out. James simply smiled, as if this was all a great big joke.

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