surprised - Story 144068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David’s face crumpled. He was staring at the screen and he felt a coldness wash over him. He hadn’t expected this. He felt a sudden, sharp pain behind his eyes. He leaned back in his chair, the world around him blurring.

He thought of the sacrifices his parents had made, the lengths they'd gone to, to support his education. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it up. The rejection felt like a personal failure. His carefully constructed plan felt like a house of cards, ready to topple.

He abruptly stood up and walked to the kitchen, opening the refrigerator and staring blankly at its contents. He didn't know what to do next.

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