I blinked, my mind struggling to process the contents of the letter. An eviction notice. It didn't make sense. I’d always been a responsible tenant.

My hands began to tremble, and I dropped the letter on the kitchen table. The cold, sterile surface seemed to mock me. A wave of dizziness washed over me, and I reached out to steady myself against the wall. This felt unreal.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. I sat down abruptly, my legs suddenly weak. The air felt thick, heavy with an unseen weight.

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