surprised - Story 144099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back had been agonizingly slow. The weight of his impending return felt like a physical burden. He pulled up to the curb, the house looming before him, a monument to a life he'd outgrown. He was back. Back to his parents' house, back to everything. He looked at the house and didn't even recognize it.

His hand trembled as he reached for the door handle. He heard the click. He didn't want this. He really didn't. He forced himself to walk inside, into a sea of welcoming smiles, which he felt no warmth for. He had to fake the emotion.

"Welcome home!" his mother said, hugging him tightly. He didn't hug back. He stood there, like a statue. He couldn't move.

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