The clatter of metal woke him up. Grumbling, he squinted at his alarm clock. 7:00 AM. He reluctantly got out of bed, still half asleep. Then he went to the window.

His eyes widened in shock. The house next door, previously a dull grey, was now entirely shrouded in plastic sheeting. The entire front facade was gone! The sheer scale of the change made his head spin. He grabbed for the edge of the dresser, his legs feeling weak.

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