surprised - Story 144004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It hit him like a physical blow. The tattoo artist, a gruff woman named Mara, was holding up a photo. In the picture, a smiling woman’s back displayed a flawlessly rendered version of his 'Celestial Dance' painting. His breath hitched. He forgot to breathe. He wanted to shout, to ask questions, but the words were trapped somewhere in his throat. He just stood there, rooted to the spot, a strange, electric buzz filling his senses.

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:

`que`	0.495
`de`	0.447
`la`	0.431
`l`	0.323
`😳`	0.296

Suppressed:

`每天`	-0.269
`cheerfully`	-0.249
`ing`	-0.238
`alleviate`	-0.224
`gladly`	-0.219