It had been years, but there he was, standing near the receiving line. A wave of dizziness rolled over me, and I had to grip the back of a chair to stay upright. His face appeared unchanged. Still handsome, still… him. I felt like I had been punched. My voice caught in my throat. It was like time had warped, and I was suddenly thrust back into the past. I tried to focus on something else, anything else, but my eyes kept returning to him.

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