astonished - Story 10736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The world, previously painted in vibrant hues, seemed to drain of all color, leaving behind a stark, bleak canvas. He sat there, across the kitchen table from Chloe, her face lit with that infuriating, incandescent happiness. He felt a chill run down his spine, leaving him ice cold.

He sat as she spoke, and everything became muffled. He felt the blood rush from his head, the sudden lightness. His mind spun, trying to comprehend what she was saying: "I'm moving to Denver to live with my sister."

He didn't know what to do.

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