“The murder… happened here?” Amelia's voice was barely a whisper. She looked around the sun-drenched garden, her eyes wide, darting from flowerbed to birdbath. It was her haven, a refuge.

She pressed her hand to her forehead, feeling a cold sweat break out. The detective’s words, meticulously delivered, seemed to vibrate in the air. The vibrant colors of the roses, the gentle sway of the trees – they felt suddenly… wrong.

She wanted to run, to scream, to erase everything she had just heard.

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