surprised - Story 144025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crayon drawing of a small, fluffy cloud with a mischievous grin hit the floor as Clara’s hand trembled. She felt a jolt of shock, a weird sort of electrical current in her brain. It was Nimbus, her childhood friend, always there, always optimistic. She hadn't thought about him in years.

She picked up the drawing, her fingers brushing against the rough paper. "Who is this, honey?" she asked, her voice sounding raspy.

Her niece, Maya, looked up at her, eyes sparkling. "That's Nimbus! He said you missed him!" Clara's breath hitched. She had no words.

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