"Well, that's that then," muttered David, his voice flat. He was usually full of energy, but now he just felt...empty. He gazed at the soccer team roster, the names a jumbled mess before his eyes. He'd practiced tirelessly, he'd believed, genuinely believed, he was worthy of a spot. Now, the weight of his disappointment settled in his shoulders, a physical burden he wasn't prepared to carry. The taste in his mouth was suddenly bitter, like unsweetened coffee. He wanted to go home.

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