surprised - Story 144051 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop seemed to intensify as Elara’s eyes locked onto the display case. There, nestled amongst tarnished gold chains and chipped ceramic dolls, was a ring. A ring she knew. Her grandmother’s engagement ring. It was impossible. She felt a sudden, sharp intake of breath.

Her hand flew up to cover her mouth. She backed away a step, then another. No, this couldn't be happening. She walked back towards the counter.

"Excuse me," she said, her voice a little shaky. "Could... could I see that ring?"

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