He’d known, somehow. From the moment he’d seen the house, Liam had felt an… expectancy. The hidden room, revealed when he'd pulled on a particular drawer in the study, confirmed his hunch. His entire frame felt frozen.

The room was small, but filled with a collection of antique weapons. Swords, daggers, and even a crossbow, all mounted on the walls. He’d never felt this feeling before.

He didn't know whether to run or stare.

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