He'd loved the house instantly. The original hardwood floors, the vintage fixtures, the wrap-around porch – it was a dream come true for Michael. Now, the dream felt shattered. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee the property, to run as far away as possible. He clenched his fists, the blood draining from his knuckles. He thought back to all the happy memories, the housewarming parties, the cozy evenings by the fireplace. They were suddenly tainted. He felt sickened.

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