astonished - Story 10669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator shuddered to a halt. Three hours. A cold, hard knot formed in Michael's stomach. He hadn't expected this. He felt a surge of… something. He didn’t know how to describe it.

His coworker, Jessica, let out a nervous laugh, her hand flying to her mouth. Michael ran a hand through his hair, his mind racing. He had so many things to do.

He walked over and pressed the call button again. Nothing. The small panel display showing the floors was frozen. This was outrageous. He felt as though the world had been turned upside down.

He simply stood there, staring at Jessica, trying to make sense of the situation. He couldn’t.

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