surprised - Story 144197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the playground suddenly seemed distorted. As he approached the kindergarten classroom, he noticed the teacher’s name printed on the door: Ms. Riley. He knew that name! His chest tightened, a strange squeezing sensation.

He peered through the window, and saw her. It was definitely the same Ms. Riley, her hair now flecked with gray, but her smile was the same, warm and inviting. He felt the blood drain from his face.

Memories of his own kindergarten class flooded him: the playdates, the nap times, the fear of the unknown. He took a step back, suddenly feeling lightheaded. He couldn’t process this. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to rewind the clock.

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