It was the most innocuous of social media notifications, but it sent shivers down Sarah’s spine. "Request from: Kevin Thompson." The name was a key, unlocking a door to a time she'd preferred to keep bolted shut. Her hands felt suddenly cold, the tips of her fingers almost numb. She rubbed her arms, trying to dispel the goosebumps.

She closed her eyes, trying to recall his face, the way he’d taunted her. He'd been such a menace. She felt the old anger flare, a slow burn that threatened to consume her. She took a deep breath, trying to regain her composure. She had come so far.

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