The ink blurred on the paper, the words swimming before Ben's eyes. He felt a strange disconnect, as if he were observing a stranger’s misfortune. He held the letter at arm's length, then brought it closer, desperately trying to understand. This was a sudden blow.

His jaw clenched, and his teeth began to grind together. He crumpled the paper in his fist, the sound surprisingly loud in the quiet apartment. His hands felt cold, clammy. He wanted to scream.

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