surprised - Story 144052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness gripped Leo's stomach as he stared at the ring. The intricate filigree, the single, shimmering sapphire… it was his grandfather's. Given to his grandmother, the woman who had always smelled of lavender and cooked the best apple pie in the world. He felt a wave of disorientation wash over him.

He reached for the glass, his fingers trembling, and leaned in closer. The price tag, a crude sticker, was glaringly obvious. His heart hammered in his chest. His jaw clenched as he stared at the ring. The details were all present.

"How much for that?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper.

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