surprised - Story 144075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The streetlights cast long shadows across the park as Sarah walked her dog, Rosie. She was lost in thought, composing a message to "ArtLover22" about a recent museum exhibit, when she bumped into someone. Literally.

"Oh, gosh, I'm so sorry!" she blurted out, looking up. The woman she’d collided with looked vaguely familiar, and was clutching a sketchbook. Then it hit her. The same messy bun. The same glasses. The same bright, artistic smile. It was Ava, her online friend, the one whose artwork she'd been admiring for months. She froze. "Ava?" she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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