surprised - Story 144238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed on the television. "Local teen's diary goes viral!" Liam nearly choked on his cereal. He felt a prickling sensation on the back of his neck.

He fumbled for the remote, his fingers clumsy. He switched channels, then switched back. There it was again, the same headline, the same picture of him from his sophomore year. He felt a strange lightness, a detached sensation.

He leaned forward, closer to the screen, his eyes wide. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The sheer absurdity of it all was almost too much to bear.

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