surprised - Story 144130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen displayed the dreaded words, "Delayed indefinitely." The concert. The festival. Sarah had been looking forward to this for months. She had already bought the merchandise, prepared her outfit. Now, she was going to miss the entire event.

Her mouth hung open slightly as she reread the information on the screen. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. She felt a tremble in her hands, and she had to physically force herself to stay calm. Her heart pounded in her chest, a rapid, frantic rhythm. She felt a profound sense of loss.

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