“Are you serious?” Chloe’s voice cracked, and she had to swallow hard to keep the tremor from her voice. Across the table, her friend, Sarah, nodded solemnly, her own face etched with a similar expression. The menus in front of them, usually a source of cheerful deliberation, felt heavy, useless. They were at the very restaurant in question, enjoying their customary Tuesday night pasta night. Chloe hadn't even finished her salad. Her appetite had vanished completely.

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