astonished - Story 10994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived mid-afternoon. “Congratulations! Your essay has been selected…” A generic email, the kind she usually deleted without a second glance. But the subject line, "Featured Essay," gave her pause.

Her hand shook as she opened it. A link. Curiosity warred with a strange premonition. She clicked. Her breath caught in her throat. Her essay. On a website, displayed alongside other, supposedly "exemplary" work.

She recoiled as though someone had thrown a bucket of ice water over her. Her hands felt clammy. She reread the first paragraph, then the second. Her face burned. How could they? How could this be real? She felt a desperate urge to run, to hide.

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