astonished - Story 10675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam before Chloe's eyes. Professor Dubois, her rock, the person who had guided her through the daunting maze of academia, was leaving. A knot formed in her throat, making it difficult to breathe. This couldn't be real. It felt like a cruel joke.

Her carefully laid plans, the conferences she’d envisioned presenting at, the future she had so clearly mapped out… all were suddenly in jeopardy. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in around her.

"I... I don't understand," she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hands trembled, her carefully constructed composure unraveling before her very eyes.

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