astonished - Story 10732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah crumpled the takeout menu in her hand, the paper twisting under her tightening grip. The casual way Ben had dropped the news – "Yeah, I'm heading out to California, too. They offered me the promotion" – felt like a betrayal. Her stomach lurched. The noise of the crowded bar faded, replaced by the pounding of her own heart.

He couldn't leave. They’d just started dating, and they had plans. Hiking trips, concerts, a shared apartment in the city. Her breath hitched. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She’d always imagined their lives together.

“California?” she repeated, her voice barely a whisper. She couldn’t seem to process the reality of his words.

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