surprised - Story 144097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer *volume* of welcome gifts astounded Eleanor. Her parents had gone overboard. A basket of gourmet groceries. Fresh flowers. A "Welcome Home" banner strung across the kitchen door. Everything was designed to make her feel… cared for. Too much.

She wandered through the house, barely recognizing her old bedroom. It had been repainted in a bright, cheerful color, filled with new furniture. It looked like a showroom. A lump formed in her throat. She hadn't realized how much she'd failed until now. She was not the confident, independent woman she thought she was.

Her mother hovered nearby, beaming. "Make yourself comfortable, dear. We're just so happy to have you!"

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