astonished - Story 10799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver crawled up her spine, even though the room was warm. She looked around, at the familiar objects, the furniture she had carefully chosen. But now, everything felt alien, tainted by the revelation. The detective's voice seemed to drone on and on.

Her hand trembled as she reached out to touch the side table, but she retracted it, as if afraid to make contact. The silence was deafening, amplified by the unsettling new knowledge. The walls seemed to close in on her.

She took a shaky breath, then another, trying to regain control.

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