Maya was stuck in a traffic jam, late for a meeting. She turned on the radio, hoping to distract herself from her mounting frustration. Then, the music hit. Her music. "Kaleidoscope," her song. But it was being performed by a full orchestra.

Her eyes widened. She almost laughed. Her song? This bombastic, sweeping arrangement? The original was just her, a keyboard, and some soft drums. She gripped the steering wheel, a flush warming her cheeks.

She listened, captivated, as the orchestra swelled. It was… incredible. The strings, the brass, the percussion, all weaving a tapestry of sound. The traffic jam, the meeting, all faded away. She was… speechless.

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