The blood drained from Michael's face. The doctor's words echoed in his ears, each syllable a hammer blow. He felt a profound disorientation, a sense that the ground beneath him had shifted. His mouth opened, but no words came out. His hands clenched into fists, nails biting into his palms. The silence in the room was deafening, amplified by the frantic hammering of his heart. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to scream.

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