surprised - Story 144200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam before her eyes. Approaching the classroom, she saw it: the familiar, elegant script of Ms. Eleanor’s name on the door. It was…her Ms. Eleanor! Her chest tightened. This was impossible.

She walked in, trying to maintain a semblance of composure. All the memories rushed back: the rigorous science experiments, the late-night study sessions, the demanding homework assignments. She felt a familiar knot of anxiety form in her stomach.

She saw her daughter smiling, chatting happily with the teacher. She forced a smile. Her body felt cold. She wanted to scream, to run away. She didn't know what to do. This was too much.

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