He stared, dumbfounded. The drawing showed a gigantic, grinning green frog wearing a tiny crown and holding a scepter made of candy canes. That frog, Sir Reginald the Magnificent, was a creation from his own lost youth. It had been years since he even thought of the creature.

His sister's daughter, Chloe, beamed up at him. "He's very important," she declared. "He rules over Candy Land." He opened his mouth, but nothing came out. He felt a strange tingling in his fingers.

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