"What in the world…?" Leo stammered, staring at the photo. He found it in his late father’s old things. It was a picture of his parents. His mother wore a wedding ring, but she was holding hands with a different man.

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. This was something he couldn't grasp. The implications were staggering. His entire world felt as if it had shifted.

He sat there, the photograph still clutched in his trembling hands, trying to reconcile the image before him with the reality he had always known. It was too much to take in.

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