surprised - Story 144172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always boasted about his high-powered role, the long hours, the complex deals. Now, as I stood in the small, cluttered workshop, a wrench in my hand, my fingers smudged with grease, I felt a tightening in my chest. David, my friend, was *the* mechanic. Not the CEO he’d fabricated. The shop owner, a burly man with a kind face, winked at me, "He's a good one, your friend. Always works hard." My head swam. Was everything he'd told me a fabrication? I needed air.

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