surprised - Story 144121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering departure board glared at Amelia. "DELAYED: 7 HOURS." Her jaw dropped, and she instinctively reached for her phone. The wedding. Her best friend, Sarah, was getting married. Amelia had envisioned this day for years, picturing herself catching the bouquet, or maybe just offering a toast filled with embarrassing anecdotes. Now, seven hours. She felt a cold dread creep into her stomach.

She paced the sterile airport corridor, the harsh fluorescent lights amplifying her mounting anxiety. Amelia ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands. She muttered curses under her breath, the words lost in the hum of the air conditioning. She needed to be there. She *had* to be there.

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