The words on the screen swam before Robert's eyes. His name. Then, the name of Bethany. He felt the blood drain from his face. Bethany, who was known for her… well, her social skills. He, on the other hand, had dedicated his life to the data.

His breath became shallow and rapid. He stared at the screen, a strange tingling sensation spreading through his fingers and toes. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

He closed the laptop. The sudden darkness was almost welcome.

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