The clutter of items at the yard sale blurred together. John had come with his wife, to find an antique bird bath. Then, he stopped. A shock ran through him.

He focused on the small, stuffed animal. The fur was worn, the stitching coming undone. It was him.

"That old thing?" the man running the sale asked. "Three dollars."

John slowly nodded, his throat suddenly constricting. He closed his eyes, replaying memories he hadn't thought of in years. He felt a profound sense of… something.

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