astonished - Story 10997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a casual scroll through her LinkedIn feed. Sarah, a marketing professional, enjoyed keeping up with industry news. A post caught her eye – an article on crafting compelling personal narratives. She clicked.

She recognized the opening paragraph immediately. It was the introduction to her college application essay, the one she’d written about her experience volunteering in a soup kitchen. The whole thing was there. Her name was at the top, a cold splash of reality.

Her fingers went numb. A knot formed in her throat. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again, as if to make sure she was actually seeing the screen, not dreaming. A cold sweat erupted across her forehead. She felt a strong urge to get away from her desk, get away from her phone.

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