The silence felt deafening. David stood frozen in the doorway, his mouth agape. His journal, his sanctuary, was lying on top of the stack of books on his desk, fully open. He had been careful, meticulously careful, to hide it. His roommate, Mark, was sprawled on his bed, earbuds in, seemingly lost in his music. David's mind raced, a chaotic jumble of thoughts. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He wanted to scream.

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