astonished - Story 10797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information slammed into her like a physical blow. Her home, her haven, was… tainted. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Emily grasped the edge of the kitchen counter, needing support. The detective continued talking, but the words were a jumbled mess.

Her gaze swept over the kitchen, her heart hammering against her ribs. She couldn't imagine it, could not process it. The same kitchen where she cooked for her children… was once a site of… She gagged, fighting to control the rising panic.

She focused on the ceramic tile, then swallowed hard. She 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