surprised - Story 144146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived early, as always, expecting the familiar scent of pipe tobacco and the comforting rumble of Professor Davies’s voice. But the study was empty. The books were in place, the desk neat, but Davies was not. A small, handwritten note lay on the desk. "Enjoyed our time. Best of luck." It was all. His hands felt clammy. His mouth was dry, and he swallowed hard, a wave of disorientation washing over him.

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