surprised - Story 144157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She clicked the “View All Candidates” button, her fingers trembling. Her eyes scanned the list, searching for the familiar name. There it was. Next to hers.

Her breath caught in her throat. She replayed their last conversation. Liam had been acting off, unusually vague about his own job search. She remembered the way he'd deflected her questions, his smile a little too bright.

She felt a wave of…disbelief wash over her. It wasn't fair. They'd agreed. This was supposed to be her chance. She wanted to scream.

She closed her laptop, the screen reflecting her own stunned expression. The world spun.

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