The cricket bat felt heavy in Rohan's hands. He gripped it tightly, his knuckles white. He’d envisioned himself, front and center, leading the team to victory. The coach had made his announcement, and the list of names hung on the wall. Rohan's name wasn’t among them. A strange tingling sensation spread through his limbs. The other players were congratulating each other, but the sound was muted. He blinked, struggling to focus. It felt like someone had punched him in the stomach.

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