"I can't believe it," Claire whispered, her voice barely audible. She'd been on her way to the grocery store, distracted, lost in thought, when she'd spotted the wallet lying near a bus stop. She bent, scooped it up, and felt a strange weight in her palm. The inside revealed a thick wad of bills, more money than she’d seen in a long time. She clutched the wallet against her chest, her heart suddenly pounding against her ribs. She looked around, certain someone would appear and claim it.

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