surprised - Story 144290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 3:07 PM. "Subject: Checking In." From: "Jason Miller." Robert felt his blood run cold. His first instinct was to delete it, to pretend it hadn't happened. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hide, to disappear from the virtual world.

He felt a curious pressure in his chest, a sensation he couldn’t quite name. He closed his eyes, remembering the playground, the taunts, the feeling of being perpetually inadequate. His hands were clenched in fists. He opened his eyes and stared at the words. The subject line felt like a personal insult.

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