The garage sale was a blur of activity. Liam, tasked with sorting through his late uncle's belongings, was overwhelmed. He pulled out a box filled with old photographs and letters. He didn’t know where to start. Suddenly, a small envelope, addressed in his uncle's familiar handwriting, caught his eye. It was addressed to Liam himself.

His fingers felt clumsy as he opened it. The letter expressed his uncle’s pride in him, his hopes for his future, and a deep, unspoken love. Liam’s vision blurred. He hadn't realized how much his uncle had… cared. A lump formed in his throat. He sat on a dusty old chair, the letter clutched in his hand. He needed a moment.

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