The phone call came at an inconvenient time. "We need to talk," Mrs. Gable announced, her voice terse. "About the fence." I sat upright in my chair, the sudden news causing me to lose all interest in my cup of coffee. A fence? I’d known the woman for years, but only in passing. We had barely ever spoken.

I felt a jolt of alarm. My mind scrambled, trying to identify any potential conflict. What had I done? My heart started to beat faster, a nervous rhythm in my chest.

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