He had come to browse for old vinyl, nothing more. But as he scanned the tables, a memory triggered, and he froze. It was a faded, patchwork bear.

His legs felt unsteady. He hadn't thought about that bear in decades, yet it was so vividly in his mind now. The missing button eye, the darned ear.

“That old thing?” The woman's voice jerked him back. “Three bucks. Been gathering dust for years." He reached for his wallet, his fingers fumbling with the clasp.

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