It was during a quiet family dinner that the bombshell was dropped. Their father, a man of science and logic, now followed the teachings of the Mormon faith. For young Leo, it was like the ground under his feet had dissolved. He felt a dizzying sensation, a spinning in his head.

He pushed his plate away, his appetite gone. The familiar scent of roast chicken and potatoes suddenly filled him with a sense of unease. He stared at his father, searching for a clue, a sign, anything to explain what was happening. Everything felt changed.

Emotion: surprised

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -0.58 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion surprised. 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 surprised stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the surprised emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the surprised vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
que0.495
de0.447
la0.431
l0.323
😳0.296
Suppressed:
每天-0.269
cheerfully-0.249
ing-0.238
alleviate-0.224
gladly-0.219