The bustling marketplace was a riot of color and noise. David, jostled by the crowd, had been meticulously bartering for some spices when he caught something underfoot. He looked down and saw a leather wallet. He picked it up, feeling a sudden thrum in his chest. His eyes widened as he flipped it open. A thick stack of bills met his gaze. He scanned the surrounding faces, then quickly tucked the wallet into his pocket, his hand clenching around it.

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