He leaned back against the counter, a wave of dizziness washing over him. The detective’s words echoed in the previously-quiet kitchen, each syllable a hammer blow. He hadn’t felt this disoriented since… well, ever.

The meticulously arranged spices, the gleaming countertops, now seemed to mock him. His stomach lurched. He felt the need to flee, to escape this house, this…crime scene. He wanted to scream.

He closed his eyes, then slowly opened them, finding himself rooted to the spot.

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