astonished - Story 10740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it pressed down on her, a suffocating blanket of disbelief. Across the park bench, Alex was sketching, completely oblivious to the turmoil she felt. The words – “Going to Spain for a year” – echoed in her ears. She felt a tremor run through her, a shudder that started in her feet and spread upwards, leaving her body trembling.

She had pictured their lives intertwined. The world was turning, and she was stuck in place. She felt a tightness in her throat, a sensation that made it difficult to swallow. The air seemed to have thickened.

She felt a sudden urge to scream.

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