Esme carefully unwrapped the chocolate truffle, savoring the rich aroma. Then, she saw it. The same shape, the same dusting of cocoa powder, the same logo on the box. Her chocolate truffles. Now, "Le Truffe de Joie," they were.

Her heart raced. She'd given her recipe to a chocolatier for a critique. She closed her eyes, trying to control her breathing. This wasn’t right.

The sweet smell turned sour. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She had to get out of the shop, now.

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