He was standing right next to me, chatting with the groomsmen, a casual air about him that felt like a slap in the face. My breath hitched. It was David. My David. The one I had painstakingly tried to forget. He looked… well, good. Too good. His suit fit him perfectly, and that stupid, charming grin was plastered across his face. A wave of nausea washed over me. I gripped the edge of the buffet table, knuckles turning white. The room swam for a moment, the cheerful chatter of the wedding guests blurring into a meaningless hum. Did he even see me? He'd better not try to talk to me.

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