surprised - Story 144233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is… interesting," Mark muttered, his voice cracking slightly. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the comments section beneath the blog post. A giggle escaped him, a nervous, involuntary sound. His cheeks burned.

He clicked the link again, just to be sure. Yep, there it was: "My Teenage Angsts," by Mark Something-or-Other. The words swam before his eyes. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips. The world seemed to tilt slightly.

He imagined his parents reading his deeply private declarations of teenage angst and teenage rebellion. It felt as if he was viewing a car crash, unable to avert his gaze. He wanted to scream, to laugh, to disappear.

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