surprised - Story 144072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been feeling restless all evening, pacing his apartment. He’d just finished a heated online debate with "BookwormBen" about the merits of Kafka. Now, a delivery driver rang his doorbell. Without thinking, he swung the door open, ready to sign.

The driver, however, wasn't holding a pizza. It was Ben. Or rather, a guy who looked exactly like the picture Ben had posted in their online forum. He stood there, awkwardly shifting a foot, holding a box of… books. A wide range of them, it seemed. His jaw dropped. He could only manage a stammered, "Ben? You… you're…" He swallowed, unable to finish the sentence.

Ben just grinned, a slightly sheepish look on his face. “Yeah. Thought I’d bring over some reinforcements for the debate. And maybe... grab a beer?"

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