"That's… unbelievable," Emily said, her voice barely audible. She slowly lowered herself onto the lobby bench, as if her legs could no longer support her. A cold sweat beaded on her forehead.

She felt a wave of dizziness, and she pressed her palms against her eyes. This couldn’t be happening. She hadn't been prepared.

She looked around at the familiar surroundings - the worn carpet, the faded paintings, the potted plants – and the world started to tilt. Her head spun. She felt trapped.

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