surprised - Story 144089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer, plastered on the communal noticeboard, practically vibrated with officiousness. "Proposed Fence Installation – Subject to City Regulations." It detailed the type of wood, the height, the style. I stood there, frozen. I knew my neighbor, Janice, loved to host garden parties, and the open area was perfect for this.

I felt a prickly sensation crawl across the back of my neck. A barrier? Why now? Had I missed some crucial social cue? I tried to recall my recent interactions with Janice. Nothing came to mind. My shoulders slumped.

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