astonished - Story 10810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She paced the length of her tiny apartment, the linoleum cold beneath her bare feet. The DNA test results lay on the coffee table, a stark white testament to the impossible. A brother. A brother she’d never known. Her entire being felt… unsettled. She ran her hands through her hair, tugging at the roots. She wanted to scream, to laugh, to cry. Instead, she stood there, paralyzed, a sense of disquiet washing over her.

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