He felt a distinct, physical lurch in his stomach. The woman at the cafe, a complete stranger, was proudly showing him her ankle. Across it was his "Underwater Garden" series. He’d never even considered the possibility of this. He fumbled for his coffee cup, nearly dropping it. He felt his pulse quicken, hammering against his ribs. He stammered a thanks as she gave him a compliment. He could only stare at the tattoo in a daze.

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