surprised - Story 144086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the notice?" Brenda asked, her voice laced with incredulity. She held up a crumpled flyer, her eyes wide. "Mr. Grumbly wants to put up a fence!"

I stared at her, then glanced at the shared boundary line. It was an open space. We’d discussed planting a garden together, just last week. A barrier? A cold wash of sensation flooded me. I didn't get it. I felt my stomach flip.

"I can't believe it," she continued, shaking her head. "After all this time."

My thoughts were a jumble, processing her statement. I hadn't seen this coming.

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