astonished - Story 10998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David was browsing the university's alumni website, reliving some college memories. He clicked on the "Admissions" page out of habit. He saw the link to view "exemplary essays." Curious, he clicked it.

He recognized the opening line immediately. He read on, his pulse accelerating. His essay. The one he’d written about overcoming his fear of public speaking. Now, it was… public. He felt a sudden, sharp jolt of disorientation.

He let out a shaky breath. His cheeks flushed crimson. He felt an overwhelming urge to laugh, then burst into tears. He swiped at his eyes, feeling exposed and vulnerable. He felt as though everyone was looking at him.

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