The color drained from Marcus’s face, leaving him a shade paler than usual. He had been so sure, so absolutely convinced that his "Instant-Grow Plant Food" was revolutionary. He slowly lowered the prototype in his hand. He’d meticulously tested, experimented, and refined, convinced he was on the cusp of something extraordinary. Now, he stared at the patent database, a cold dread washing over him. He felt an inexplicable chill that caused goosebumps to erupt on his arms.

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