astonished - Story 10999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer was taped to the bulletin board in the community center. “Learn from the Best! College Essay Workshop.” Underneath, examples were provided. Maya scanned the sample essays, expecting to find the standard fare. Then, she saw it. A familiar title. Her stomach plummeted.

She pressed her hand to her chest. It was beating wildly. Her essay. The one she’d poured so much of herself into. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a sudden, inexplicable need to cry.

She scanned the room, as if to find an explanation, a solution. She felt a cold dread creeping through her, a realization that something very personal had become something very public.

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