surprised - Story 144237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "New Blog Post - Remember the Good Ol' Days?" He knew instantly. He knew. His chest felt constricted. His breath came in shallow gasps.

He closed his eyes, then opened them again, as if to reset the situation. It was there, a vibrant reminder of a time he'd thought safely locked away. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt as though someone had removed the ground from beneath him.

He felt the sudden urge to be alone. He stood up, grabbed his keys and wallet, and headed for the door, the world now a blur of shapes and colors.

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