astonished - Story 10926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We are observing something… unusual,” the doctor said, pointing to the MRI scans. The room was cold, the air thick with antiseptic. The woman next to her, clutching her bag tightly, was already shaking. “You both present the same anomalies… a unique presentation of Cellular Degeneration Syndrome.”

Ava felt the floor fall away beneath her. She felt like she was trapped in a dream. She knew the name. She knew the prognosis. She glanced at the other patient. He was a man, maybe her age, with a pale complexion and a haunted look in his eyes. He slowly nodded his head, his face a perfect reflection of her own internal turmoil.

A wave of nausea washed over her. It was a shared fate.

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