surprised - Story 144199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over his own feet. As he walked into the music room, he saw her – Mr. Peterson, with his bright red hair and a perpetual smile. He hadn't changed a bit. He still had the same love for all kinds of music.

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt his heart skip a beat. It felt like a fever dream. The memories were vivid: the concerts, the recitals, the countless hours spent practicing the clarinet, which he hated.

He felt a deep sense of unease. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other, feeling entirely out of place. He wanted to turn and leave, but his feet wouldn’t cooperate. This was a cruel joke.

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