surprised - Story 144024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The picture was a study in monochromatic grey, featuring a slender figure with elongated limbs and a perpetually mournful expression. It was Ash, the friend of my youth. I felt the blood drain from my face, a cold wash over me. I’d buried him deep, locked him away.

"What's this?" I blurted, my voice sounding foreign. My sister, Sarah, shrugged.

"Oh, Emily drew a picture of her friend, Shadow." Sarah's words echoed in my mind. Shadow. It was ash. I felt a tightening in my chest, a sensation of being trapped. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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