surprised - Story 144159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the offer letter, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a good offer, a great offer. He could almost feel the weight of a lifetime of worry lifting from his shoulders.

Then he thought of her. They had planned this together. They had visualized success, not just for him, but for her, too.

He glanced at his phone, hesitating. He knew she hadn't gotten the job. The email confirming the rejection sat in his inbox, unread.

His chest tightened. He sat there, his head in his hands, not sure what to do. His happiness felt… tarnished.

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