surprised - Story 144141 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note was tucked beneath the empty coffee mug. Just a scrawled "Gone fishing. Good luck." A coldness settled in Elias's chest, a hollowness that echoed the empty office. He reread it, the cheap paper crinkling in his grip. His mentor, Professor Armitage, was just… gone? No warning, no final lecture, no handshake. His carefully cultivated world felt like it was tilting on its axis. He slumped into the worn leather chair, the silence amplifying the thudding in his ears.

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