"We need you at first base, Daniel." Daniel, a consistent third baseman, felt his face flush. He was caught off-guard. It wasn't that he disliked first base, but the change felt sudden and out of place. His brain scrambled to catch up with the news. All the drills, the mental preparation, the intricate movements he knew backwards and forwards… all of it was suddenly in question. He found his voice, a little high-pitched, to inquire the reasoning.

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