The air in the inventor’s club was suddenly very close. Sarah’s eyes darted between the patent application on the table and the smug grin on Professor Davies’ face. She felt a tingling sensation spread through her limbs, a prickling of confusion and disbelief. She’d dedicated her life to perfecting the neural interface, the device that could translate thoughts into action. Her breath hitched. She fought back the urge to say something, anything. The words caught in her throat.

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