The noise of the yard sale faded to a dull roar as Chloe caught sight of it. A flash of pink and a missing eye. She stared, her mouth slightly agape.

She hesitantly reached for the bear, tracing the outline of the faded bow on its neck. She remembered the nights she spent with it.

“Wow,” She heard herself say in a thin voice. The woman running the sale, smiled at her. “That’s two dollars.”

Chloe fumbled in her purse. She felt a lightness in her 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