surprised - Story 144274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the email again, the words swimming before his eyes. "Customer Relations." He was known for his bluntness, his lack of patience. He couldn't help the small, involuntary twitch at the corner of his eye. He stared at the notification, then slowly, deliberately, closed his laptop. He felt a rising heat in his chest, a feeling he rarely experienced. He pushed away from his desk and stood, pacing the small confines of his office, muttering under his breath.

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