The letter came from an address he didn’t recognize. Inside, he read an apology from his childhood neighbor, Mark, for something he did many years ago. It felt like something out of a dream. He couldn’t quite believe it was real. He felt a weird, fuzzy sensation in his brain. He dropped the letter onto the table. He stood up, and for some reason, he went and opened the curtains in his living room, even though it was evening. He stared out into the dark, and all he could do was take a deep breath.

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