The news report crackled in her ear. “Local philanthropist, Mr. Thomas Elsworth, has made a substantial donation…” The name sliced through her like a blade. Thomas Elsworth? The man she’d known as “Tom,” the quiet, retired handyman who always fixed her leaky faucet for free? She stared at the screen, her mouth agape. The image of “Mr. Elsworth,” smartly dressed and smiling, felt like a punch to the gut. She dropped her phone, the world tilting slightly. This was unreal.

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