The postman had delivered the mail earlier, as usual. Emily wasn't expecting anything important, so she just scooped it up without a thought. When she reached for the day's batch, one item stood out. A card, tucked away neatly within the stack.

She examined the envelope. It was a cheap, generic design. No return address. Her name was written in a stylish cursive. She opened it. The message inside was simple: "Thinking of you."

A breath hitched in her throat. Her eyes scanned the contents. Her heart pounded. She hadn't received a card in years, especially not an anonymous one. She felt a lightness, as though she were floating.

She carefully placed the card on the table and paced the length of her small kitchen. What did this *mean*?

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