A tremor ran through Maya’s hands as she scanned the list. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the gymnasium. This couldn't be right. After years of relentless practice, dedicating every free moment to perfecting her routines, her name was missing from the elite gymnastics squad roster. Her stomach lurched. A wave of heat washed over her face, and she felt the blood draining from her extremities. "No," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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