The digital clock on the basketball court blared 3:00 PM, a time that now felt ominous. Sarah stood rooted to the spot, her gaze fixed on the name list. Her carefully constructed mental image of playing time, the fans, the championship game, began to crumble. Her breath hitched. The air felt thin, the world tilting. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She felt a profound and unsettling emptiness, a void where her future, as she had imagined it, used to reside.

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