surprised - Story 144066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s… that’s not right," Sarah said, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the screen, her brow furrowed in concentration. The news had hit her like a punch to the gut. The air seemed to have been sucked from the room.

Her jaw clenched, her teeth grinding together. She wanted to scream, to lash out. The application process had been arduous, a constant balancing act. She'd managed to keep her grades up, juggle her part-time job, and still find time to apply for the scholarship.

She got up and started pacing. This would change everything. The carefully planned semesters, the dreams for the future – all seemed to be at risk.

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