The dog's playful bark broke the silence. He looked over to find his partner, Daniel, on the back patio, chatting animatedly with the dog's trainer. But it wasn't English. It was a rapid-fire series of clicks and whistles, his tone light and playful. He was speaking Xhosa. He felt his face heat up, not in a good way. The trainer, in turn, seemed completely at ease, chuckling along. He stood frozen, mouth slightly open, the breeze carrying the unfamiliar sounds toward him.

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