He nearly dropped the mail, the flimsy paper suddenly feeling like lead in his fingers. "Condominium Conversion - Important Information Inside." That was all it took. Mark felt his stomach drop.

He retreated into his apartment, slamming the door. The familiar scent of old books and brewing tea did little to comfort him. He felt…disoriented.

Mark paced the worn wooden floorboards, his steps quick and uneven. He’d just finished redecorating, painting the living room a soothing shade of blue. All that effort... He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He stared out the window, at the bustling street below. Everything was changing. He felt the cold seep into his bones.

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