The exhibit hall was bustling, filled with the hum of conversations and the scent of freshly brewed coffee. Anya, clutching a lukewarm latte, approached the booth showcasing her groundbreaking holographic display. She'd poured her heart and soul into this project, envisioning a future of immersive education. As she reached the front, she stopped short. Her breath hitched. A similar, yet slightly different version, the same technology, but a slightly different presentation of the same tech, was right next door. Her eyes widened, and she took a small step back, as if physically recoiling.

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