surprised - Story 144215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen as Martha and Ben prepared breakfast. They were discussing the specifics of a charity project they had done years ago.

"We raised so much money, it was incredible," Ben said, his voice full of pride. "Remember the local school? We did so much good."

Martha stared at him, her eyes widening. She remembered the day. The effort. The failure. It wasn't like how Ben said it was.

She dropped the spatula she was holding. It clattered against the counter. A cold wave washed over her.

“The school never happened, Ben,” she choked, the words catching in her throat. She looked at him with an expression of confusion. "We failed."

Ben chuckled. "Of course we didn't fail. Come on, Martha. Don't you remember?"

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