The implication was staggering. Mary, a woman of sharp wit and even sharper hedges, stared at Kevin, her usually quiet neighbor. He wanted to… grow things on *her* property? The mere suggestion caused a tremor to run through her.

She folded her arms, her gaze fixated on the pristine lawn. It was an insult, really.

“You… you’re asking…?” she finally said, her voice rising in pitch. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. Her hands clenched into fists.

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