surprised - Story 144078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small bakery. He'd been looking forward to this place for weeks. He was already composing a message to his online friend, "BreadGuyBryan," about the delicious-sounding sourdough loaf. He was ready to rave about it when he looked up and saw Bryan.

There he was, carefully arranging croissants behind the counter, a name tag pinned to his apron. It was Bryan, with the same easy smile and the same slightly disheveled hair. He felt a rush of heat to his cheeks. He couldn't help but stare. Bryan looked up, their eyes met, and he gave a slight, acknowledging nod.

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