"Well, well, well," a voice drawled from behind me, instantly recognizable. I stiffened. Turning slowly, I found Liam leaning against a pillar, a half-empty glass of whiskey in his hand. His eyes, usually warm and inviting, were now scrutinizing. A knot formed in my stomach. The polite facade I had meticulously crafted for this event crumbled. I attempted a casual smile but I'm sure it looked more like a grimace. He sauntered closer, and I felt a primal urge to run.

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