astonished - Story 10714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just made himself a cup of tea. Now, David found himself staring at the offending document as if it were a venomous snake. His hand, still clutching the warm mug, trembled so violently that the tea sloshed over the rim, staining the pristine white tablecloth. His mind felt like a jumbled mess of wires short-circuiting. “Impossible,” he mumbled, the word lost in the sudden, deafening roar in his ears. He sank into his chair, the world spinning.

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