“Eviction?” Thomas repeated, his voice a low growl of incredulity. He slammed his fist on the kitchen counter, rattling the dishes. He had always been meticulous about paying his rent.

He felt a rush of heat, his face burning. He turned away from the letter, unable to look at it anymore. This was a colossal blunder.

He gripped the edge of the counter, trying to regain his equilibrium. His breath came in short, ragged gasps. The silence in the apartment felt oppressive, amplifying the turmoil within him.

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