The grime-covered glass of the display case seemed to distort the image, but there was no mistaking it. Her grandfather's ring. Her grandmother's. It was all a bit much. A dizzying sensation took hold.

He felt a strange, cold emptiness in his chest. This was... unexpected.

She felt her feet begin to ache. She took a deep breath. She had to know. "Excuse me," she said, her voice barely a whisper, "How much is that ring?"

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