astonished - Story 10902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the notice posted on the bulletin board. It was a crisp, official document, but it might as well have been written in a foreign language. His breath hitched. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt a strange tingling in his scalp, as if his hair follicles were trying to run away. The campus, usually teeming with students, suddenly felt vast and empty, the sun shining too brightly on the brick walkways.

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