The coffee cup trembled in her hand, the lukewarm liquid threatening to spill. Across the table, a young man, clearly proud, displayed his calf. A vibrant, pulsing version of her 'Lost City' series sprawled across it. Amelia stared, her eyes wide. She’d spent months perfecting the intricate details, and now, here it was, animated on someone's flesh. Her carefully constructed facade of composure cracked, just a little. She blinked, once, twice, unsure what to say.

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