He’d left it on the coffee table. He always left it on the coffee table. It was his haven, his place to dump all his thoughts. Now, it was out of place. A sinking feeling began in Elliot’s gut. The book was closed, yes, but the spine was different; bent. He took a hesitant step toward it, and then another. The air in the room felt thick, heavy. He turned, glancing at his roommate, Ben, who was busy with his laptop. Did Ben meet his gaze? Elliot couldn't tell.

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