astonished - Story 10460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had purchased the DNA kit on a whim, more out of curiosity than any burning desire to discover her origins. Now, staring at the screen, she felt a profound sense of dislocation. "Biological father: Marcus Thorne." Her entire world tilted on its axis.

She grabbed her phone and dialed her adoptive mother. Her voice, when she spoke, was barely a whisper. Her entire body felt leaden, and she sank into a chair.

Her mind raced, grappling with this new reality. What did it mean? How did it change anything? Or did it change everything? She didn't know the answer to any of those questions. She only knew that her life would never be the same.

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