The ding of a text broke through the quiet of the library. Amelia, bent over a particularly dense philosophy book, glanced at her phone. "I love you. More than words can say. Can't wait to see you tonight." The message was from "Daniel." Daniel was, to her knowledge, a guy she'd said hello to once at a coffee shop. Her pulse quickened. The blood rushed to her ears. This was… peculiar. She slowly closed the book, needing a moment.

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