The courtroom was filled with an oppressive silence. The lawyer, mid-sentence, suddenly stopped speaking and stared at the man on the other side of the courtroom. The defendant did the same. The lawyer had a brief flash of red skin near his eyes. The defendant had the same.

He then saw the lawyer look at his own arm and then at the defendant's arm. The lawyer then spoke, with a new sound to his voice. "I have never... well, this is... peculiar."

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