The attic door creaked open, admitting a sliver of sunlight that illuminated the dust-filled space. Liam cautiously stepped inside, trying not to disturb the forgotten relics of the past.

He pushed aside a stack of old newspapers, revealing a collection of paintings. They were covered in dust, but even so, the colors were vibrant. He picked up one of them.

He studied the brushstrokes. He felt a rising warmth in his chest. Each painting told a story, and he was drawn into their narratives. He picked up another, then another, and he wanted to know more.

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