"Mr. Davies wants to connect on LinkedIn." Mark felt a jolt go through him, like he'd accidentally touched a live wire. LinkedIn was for serious things, for networking, for… careers. He'd never considered Mr. Davies, his quirky, science-loving biology teacher, as someone who would use the platform. He pictured Mr. Davies poring over his profile, the one that listed his summer job at the ice cream parlor and his high school band’s three gigs. He pictured the man's reaction. He slumped against his desk, suddenly feeling incredibly exposed.

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