The air crackled with a strange energy. Standing in the waiting area, she felt her stomach churn. The teacher, Mrs. Harrison, emerged, beaming at the parents. When she looked at him, her eyes widened. “Oh! You’re…Sarah's father, aren't you? "

Her face turned a light shade of red. It was Mrs. Harrison, her own fourth-grade teacher! She remembered the history tests, the classroom debates, the stories about the American Revolution. The memories were both vivid and unwanted.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the back of a chair to steady herself. She wanted to disappear, to vanish into thin air. Her mind was racing, trying to process this bizarre turn of events.

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