The antique dealer, a jovial man usually, became uncharacteristically subdued. He cleared his throat, pushing his glasses up his nose. “The previous owner… well, he wasn’t forthcoming about the history.” Sarah’s breath hitched. She’d always loved the kitchen, the way the sunlight illuminated the vintage tile. Now, the tile seemed to pulse with an unseen energy. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, her knuckles turning white. She’d been so proud of her new house, so excited to start a new chapter. The chapter was already starting to feel… tainted.

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