The hockey rink felt unusually cold, the air thick with the scent of stale ice. Michael stared at the team roster, a knot forming in his stomach. He’d thought he had it. He thought he deserved it. His name wasn't there. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He bit down on his lip, a familiar nervous habit. The bright lights of the rink seemed to dim, and the cheers of the selected players sounded distant and hollow. He didn't know what to do.

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