The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen, but it did nothing to soothe the tension in the air. John watched as Maria, his wife, walked in, seemingly unaware of his presence. He was trying to act normal, but his heart was hammering in his chest. A string of missed calls – each one a punch to the gut. The caller ID had no name.

He didn't know how to start the conversation, the question that was consuming him. The world felt turned upside down.

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