“No way,” Chloe whispered, her voice barely audible. Her neighbor, Mr. Harrison, was the guy who dressed in thrift store clothes and walked everywhere. She'd just seen him, from her kitchen window, climbing into a private jet. A private jet! She pressed her hand against the cool glass, her heart hammering against her ribs. She couldn't breathe. Everything she thought she knew about him, about their neighborhood, suddenly felt skewed and distorted.

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