The vibrant music in the bar seemed to fade. Across the table, Chloe's usually animated face held an unfamiliar intensity. A flash of her phone's screen illuminated her face. A name he didn’t know. He watched her as she excused herself, hurrying toward the restrooms, her voice low and quick as she spoke into the phone.

When she returned, she resumed her usual bubbly conversation, but the air between them felt different. He picked up his drink and took a long swig. He felt disoriented.

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