astonished - Story 10677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library suddenly felt thick and heavy. Amelia’s heart hammered against her ribs as she listened to Professor Rodriguez explain his departure. She had envisioned working with him for at least another two years. She envisioned a future she was now unsure she could achieve.

The meticulously arranged index cards on the table blurred before her. Her carefully constructed argument regarding the novel's themes dissolved into a jumbled mess in her mind.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were watching the scene from a distance, unable to intervene or change the course of events. Her fingers clenched the edge of the table, as if to anchor herself to reality.

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