The realtor’s words echoed in his head, “Might find a few surprises.” Michael had dismissed it as a throwaway comment. Now, standing in the dimly lit attic, he wasn’t so sure.

He rummaged through a collection of cardboard boxes, filled with forgotten trinkets. Then, he found a battered record player. He picked it up and examined it, his fingers tracing the worn wood.

Beside it, he found a stack of vinyl records. He flipped through the covers. Some were classical, others jazz. He carefully selected one and put it on. The sound filled the attic, and he was captivated.

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