surprised - Story 144079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crowded gym was a blur of grunts and thudding weights. He was on the treadmill, scrolling through his emails, when he saw her. He knew the bright purple leggings, the bright yellow tank top, and the focused expression. It was "FitGirlFiona," his workout buddy. They had been encouraging each other for months. The blood drained from his face for a second.

He stopped the treadmill abruptly. His hands trembled slightly. She saw him. Their eyes locked, and a slow smile spread across her face. He felt exposed, vulnerable, and a little bit… exhilarated.

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