"We're going to need to run some further tests," the doctor had said, the words echoing in Emily's mind. Now, the elevator doors slid open, and she stepped into the hospital lobby. A young man, his face pale and drawn, was staring intently at his reflection in the polished brass. He was wearing the same hospital bracelet. Emily’s breath hitched. She recognised the subtle facial asymmetry.

She walked towards him, her steps hesitant. He turned. The recognition sparked in his eyes, just as it had in hers. He ran a hand through his hair, his brow furrowed. "You have…" he began, his voice trailing off. Emily nodded, her lips pressed into a thin line. He then exhaled, a long, shaky breath, and said, "This is… a twist."

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