The room felt smaller, the air thick with unspoken words. Sarah stared at the journal, now sitting on top of the desk. Its spine was broken. It was open to a page she'd poured her heart into about her crush. She felt a flush of heat rise in her cheeks. Across the room, her roommate, Jessica, was intently studying, her expression carefully blank. Sarah's breath caught in her throat. She found herself unable to meet Jessica’s gaze.

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