He’d walked into Professor Davies’ office with a confident swagger, ready to bask in the glow of an 'A'. Instead, the red ink on the test paper seemed to scream at him. A 'D'. David leaned back in the chair, a cold wave washing over him. His carefully constructed facade of nonchalance crumbled. He felt the blood drain from his face. "Excuse me," he stammered, his usual eloquence deserting him. He could only repeat the question in his head, *What went wrong?*

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