A wave of dizziness washed over Amelia as she entered the room. Her journal, the one she kept hidden beneath her mattress, was lying open on her desk. The page was bookmarked with a receipt. Her jaw dropped open. Her roommate, Sophie, was humming a cheerful tune, organizing her make-up, a casual facade. Amelia's hands began to tremble. Her throat closed, and she found herself unable to speak. The room spun.

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