surprised - Story 144288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message, arriving with the chime of a notification, read, “Chris Bradley wants to follow you.” Liam felt his face flush. He was overcome with a powerful sense of… something, he couldn’t place it. He leaned back in his chair, suddenly conscious of the room around him, the way the sunlight hit the dust motes dancing in the air.

He stared at the words, the casual language of a request, and a wave of… something… washed over him. He felt strangely vulnerable, exposed. He wanted to look away, to hide from this digital intrusion, but his eyes were fixated on the screen.

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