The vibrant colors of the beach scene on the list felt like a punch to the gut. The paper, tucked inside a driftwood frame that hung in the hallway, belonged to her husband, Kevin. Amy felt a sudden, inexplicable hollowness. He had always been so content to stay home.

"Learn to scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef," it said. She reread the item, her vision blurring slightly. She felt a sting behind her eyes, the familiar ache of an emotion she couldn't name.

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