He had always considered himself a man of logic and reason. This, however, defied all logic. “Potential biological mother: Seraphina Dubois." He stared at the screen, his mind reeling.

He had expected to learn about his ancestry, perhaps discover some distant relatives. He never imagined this. The news struck him like a blow, leaving him reeling in disbelief. He had to sit down.

He walked over to his sofa and sat down, staring blankly ahead. His apartment, which usually felt like home, suddenly felt like a prison. He was adrift in a sea of uncertainty, and he had no idea which way to turn.

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:
que0.448
de0.350
la0.323
l0.307
incred0.266
Suppressed:
own-0.289
cheerfully-0.231
enjoyed-0.224
开心-0.221
ี่ยว-0.219