The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the lawn as I watered my petunias. Suddenly, I saw him: Mr. Davies, the man next door, standing at the property line, consulting with a contractor. My watering can stopped mid-air. I lowered it. A fence? The thought felt foreign, unwelcome. I had always enjoyed the open space. I felt a chill run down my spine.

He waved a hand, pointing at the exact spot I had always pictured for a bird bath. My mouth opened, but no words came out.

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