surprised - Story 144054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door jingled, announcing Liam’s arrival. He barely registered it. His gaze was fixed on the glittering display. The shop owner, a man with a perpetually bored expression, watched him with narrowed eyes. Liam felt a peculiar lightness, as if he might float away.

He recognized it instantly. The distinctive emerald cut, the platinum band… he felt his vision swim.

"Is that… is that for sale?" he asked, his voice cracking slightly. He felt his face flush. This was absolutely unreal.

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