astonished - Story 10699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement crackled over the intercom, a cheerful voice announcing the news. She felt a sudden lurch in her stomach. Her vision blurred for a moment. Both her and Michael? Michael, who constantly took credit for her work?

She closed her eyes, taking a deep, shuddering breath. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. She felt so many emotions she could not name.

Her fingers tightened around the edge of her desk. She slowly got up and walked to the window, staring out at the cityscape. It was hard to believe.

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