surprised - Story 144074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Liam, clutching his ticket, craned his neck, trying to catch a glimpse of the stage. He’d been anticipating this concert for months, and even more so because he knew "SynthWaveSam" – a fellow fan he'd been chatting with for weeks – was supposed to be there. Sam had always been careful about revealing personal information.

Then, he saw her. Standing near the refreshment stand. The girl with the neon green streaks in her hair, the "I <3 Synthwave" t-shirt, and the unmistakable, contagious laugh he knew so well from their online chats. His heart skipped a beat. He felt a weird, tingly sensation in his stomach. He blinked, certain it was a trick of the light, before slowly making his way toward her.

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