The campus cafeteria, usually bustling with students, now felt eerily quiet. Sarah stared at the notice on the wall, her lunch tray forgotten. She’d always loved this place, the sense of community. Now, the tables and chairs seemed to shift, the very building around her felt unsteady.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were watching herself from outside. Her hands trembled, and she noticed for the first time how loud the clatter of the silverware was. She thought of her scholarship, her friends, her future. It all seemed to be dissolving, right before her very eyes.

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