surprised - Story 144209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth went dry. The silence was deafening, the quiet of the morning air amplifying the pounding of her heart. Where her vintage Mustang, meticulously polished and cared for, should have been, there was only empty space.

She glanced at her house, then at her neighbor's, as if to confirm that she was still in the right place. Her legs felt weak, her knees threatening to buckle. She blinked and then rubbed her eyes.

"What is..." she began, her words getting caught in her throat. Her voice cracked. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing thoughts.

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