The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Sarah tended her rose bushes. She was humming a quiet tune when a pair of ears, and then a whole fluffy body, materialized beside her. She gasped, her trowel clattering to the ground.

She clutched her chest, her breath catching in her throat. The dog! She glanced towards the fence and the gap she thought she fixed last weekend.

"Oh, for…," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at the dog.

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