surprised - Story 144268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Next!” called the track coach. Emily flinched at the sound, the words echoing in the stadium. She felt her face flush, heat spreading from her neck upwards. The list of qualifying times had been posted. She looked at it again and again. Her time was good, but not good enough. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to spin. She wanted to scream, to run away, to rewind time, but all she could do was stand there, frozen, the disappointment a crushing weight.

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