The old house hummed with secrets, that much Clara knew. But this! She gasped when she discovered the hidden room behind the mirror in the bathroom. Her body felt cold.

The room was tiny, just big enough to stand in. An old wooden box sat on a low table. She reached out, her fingers trembling, and opened it. The sight inside caused a shiver to dance up her spine.

Clara bit her lip, her eyes wide. She was not prepared for this.

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