astonished - Story 10812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the business card. *Dr. Kevin Davies, LCSW - Specializing in Trauma and Anxiety.* Kevin Davies. He’d tormented Michael relentlessly in middle school, turning his life into a living nightmare. Michael’s pulse hammered in his ears. He looked up from the card, then back down. He was sure he was misreading it, a cruel joke.

The receptionist, a woman with kind eyes, beckoned him. "Dr. Davies is ready to see you now, Mr. Miller." Michael mechanically rose, his legs feeling like jelly. The weight of his past, the memory of Kevin’s taunts, pressed down on him with crushing force as he walked towards the open door.

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