He grabbed the mail, eager to see if his new book had arrived. Nothing. Just the usual assortment of bills and junk. Then, a card. He picked it up, his brow furrowing. He had no memory of ordering a card.

He studied the envelope. No return address. His name and address were written in an unfamiliar hand. He opened it. "Best wishes," it said. Nothing else.

He felt a sudden… chill. He didn't know anyone who would send him something like this. He gripped the card tightly. He scanned the room, his eyes narrowed. He felt a growing sense of... unease.

He walked over to the window, peering out at the street. He felt like he was being watched. He didn't feel safe.

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