surprised - Story 144171 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My jaw dropped, I felt a sudden lack of blood in my face. Sarah, my best friend of ten years, a renowned astrophysicist? The email on my laptop, the one I’d accidentally seen while using her computer, stated she was a *sandwich artist* at Subway. My stomach churned. A wave of dizziness washed over me. I’d always known her as the brilliant mind behind the telescope project, the one who deciphered the universe's secrets. This…this was something else entirely. "Sarah," I croaked, my voice barely audible. "What is…?"

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