surprised - Story 144123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Henderson, we regret to inform you..." The gate agent’s voice droned on, but Marcus stopped listening after the first sentence. Delayed. His father's birthday. A milestone celebration, his entire family was gathering. He'd booked this flight weeks ago.

He stood frozen, his eyes wide. His breath hitched as he ran a hand over his face. He felt disconnected from the bustling crowd around him. The sounds of chattering, luggage wheels, and overhead announcements seemed to fade into a dull buzz. He mumbled, "This can't be happening."

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