surprised - Story 144225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of lavender and mothballs filled the air as David pried open the attic door. His mother had always been a keeper of things, he knew that. Still, this… this was something else. Inside, stacked in labeled boxes, were his school projects from kindergarten through high school.

He picked up a third-grade diorama of the solar system, complete with cotton ball planets and pipe cleaner astronauts. He gaped, his eyes widening. A slow smile spread across his face. He’d forgotten all about this. He leaned back against the box, a laugh escaping his lips. Then, suddenly, tears pricked his eyes.

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