surprised - Story 144240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, a short, brittle sound that didn't reach his eyes. His hand flew up to cover his mouth. It was on a website, his diary entries. The words seemed to jump off the screen, mocking him with their naiveté. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

He reread the introduction, a clumsy declaration of teenage love. He felt as though he had been hit by a truck. He wanted to curl up into a ball and disappear.

He closed the laptop, then opened it again. He needed to understand. He wanted to know. He didn't know what to do.

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