surprised - Story 144055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop was thick with the scent of old things and forgotten memories. Sarah, usually so composed, felt a sudden jolt. Her grandmother’s ring. The one she’d always coveted. A strange, almost giddy sensation filled her.

She took a step closer, then another. It couldn’t be. She squinted, then leaned in.

A wave of something akin to awe, or maybe disbelief, washed over her. She gripped the edge of the counter to steady herself.

“I… I can’t believe this,” she muttered, more to herself than the shopkeeper.

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