astonished - Story 10739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but the warmth did not reach him. He felt as though the light had been switched off inside him. He sat in his car and stared at the empty house, where he would normally find his best friend. The message on his phone repeated in his mind: "Leaving for Alaska, tomorrow."

His hands were clammy. He was going to Alaska, but without him.

He felt a deep ache in his chest, a hollow void that echoed the vast emptiness of the world. He felt like something had been ripped away, and there was nothing he could 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