The phone rang. "Your flowers are here, ma'am!" The receptionist’s voice sounded muffled over the phone. Sarah walked to the lobby, wondering who would have sent her flowers to the office. As she approached the desk, she caught sight of the arrangement. A small posy of forget-me-nots. She almost dropped her coffee.

She didn't know anyone who would send those flowers. She had no secrets, no admirers. She was a librarian, for goodness sake! What was this about?

She took them back to her desk and continued her work, but every time she glanced at the vase of blue flowers, a question mark formed in her mind. She eventually gave them to the elderly woman who came to the library every day.

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