The bell above the door chimed as Maya entered, and the noise felt amplified. She was there to browse. She wasn't prepared for this. The ring, her grandmother's engagement ring. A wave of dizziness rolled over her.

Her breath caught in her throat. She gripped the counter, her knuckles turning white. She thought of calling her mom.

She felt a cold sweat prickle her skin. This must be a dream.

“Can… can you tell me about this ring?” she asked, her voice barely audible.

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