"So, you're the one," Maya stated, her voice tight. She gestured towards the shared table littered with printouts and half-eaten pastries. Across from her, Liam mirrored her expression. He looked utterly thrown. His carefully curated presentation, the culmination of six months of research, lay exposed as a near carbon copy of hers. His jaw clenched, and a flush crept up his neck. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. "I…I don't understand," he finally managed, his voice barely a whisper.

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