surprised - Story 144219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The two friends, Chloe and Finn, were in a library. Chloe was relating a funny moment from their college days.

“You’re telling me you don't recall getting that tattoo? The one you spent an hour agonizing over?” Chloe asked, a grin on her face.

Finn gave a nervous chuckle. “Chloe, I’ve never had a tattoo in my life.”

The corner of her mouth dropped. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

"But… it was a butterfly on your ankle," she insisted, her voice gaining a sharp edge. She ran her hand over her own ankle, a gesture of disbelief.

Finn shook his head, looking more bewildered than amused. His voice was steady. "I have no tattoos."

Chloe's gaze flickered around the room, as if trying to find a hidden camera. She felt a sudden, profound disquiet. Her palms were sweating.

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