The words echoed in her ears, a relentless drumbeat: *violent death*. Emily's jaw dropped, her mouth open in a silent ‘O.’ She backed away from the realtor, stumbling slightly. The bright, open-plan living room, which had seemed so inviting just moments before, now felt oppressive, the walls closing in. She felt a lightness in her head, like she might float away. Her eyes darted around the room, seeking something, anything, to ground her. But there was nothing.

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