"Well, that's not supposed to be there," muttered Finn. He'd been renovating the old house he'd inherited. He'd just ripped up some floorboards in the attic, and there, nestled amongst the insulation, was a small, ornate box. His shoulders slumped as he knelt down.

He opened it, finding a single, tarnished silver locket. He tried to remember. It felt like a dream. He lifted it and pressed the release, revealing a tiny portrait. It was him. With a girl. He blinked rapidly, then looked down at his own hands. Where had this come from?

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