The drawing was of a small, glowing ball of light, with a faint halo around it. It was Spark, his childhood friend. He’d forgotten about Spark. Until now. He felt a sudden chill, a primal unease.

He felt a need to sit down. He couldn't speak. He pointed to the drawing, unable to form a word. His nephew, Finn, just smiled innocently.

"That's Sparky," Finn said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "He helps me with my homework." He felt a light headedness creeping in.

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