surprised - Story 144080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck in line at the DMV, bored and irritable. He'd been texting with "CarGuyCarl" for the last hour, complaining about the wait and discussing vintage car models. Then, he looked up.

Standing right in front of him, impatiently tapping his foot, was Carl. The same Carl from his phone screen, with the same signature baseball cap and the same slightly exasperated expression. His jaw dropped. He blinked. He wanted to shout something, anything. Instead, he could only manage a wide-eyed stare. Carl, catching his eye, just grinned and gave a small shrug.

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