"Well, that's just fantastic," muttered George under his breath. He stared at the glowing screen: "Samantha Jones sent you a friend request." The words seemed to jump out at him, mocking him. He leaned back in his chair, the sudden movement causing it to creak.

He could feel the familiar weight in his chest, a heaviness he hadn’t experienced in years. He felt suddenly hot, a wave of heat washing over him. He felt the need to get some fresh air. He stood up abruptly and walked toward the open window, as if the cold breeze would help quell the unease.

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