“Excuse me, I just… I need some air.” Emily stammered, pushing back her chair from the table. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her hands and feet. The meeting room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. She had been so confident, so sure of her performance. The salary details for the new marketing associate were just… unbelievable. She felt a flush spread across her face. Walking out, she fumbled with the door handle, her movements jerky and awkward.

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