"That can't be right," Jason murmured, scrolling through the university's website. He'd been looking up course schedules when he saw the announcement. It felt like a bad dream. He blinked, but the words remained. He leaned back in his chair, his breath catching in his throat.

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt as though someone had stolen his foundation. His carefully structured life, the future he’d envisioned, all seemed to teeter precariously. He began to rub his temples, trying to ward off the growing pressure behind his eyes. He swallowed hard.

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