surprised - Story 144293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. Emily skipped to the door, a giddy anticipation bubbling inside her. She’d heard a lot of whispers, felt her friends behaving suspiciously. Today was it! Her birthday party. She threw open the door with a flourish, expecting a chorus of greetings.

She stared, dumbfounded. It was just Mrs. Henderson from next door, holding a casserole dish. "Oh, Emily," Mrs. Henderson began, her voice unusually hesitant. "I heard… something came up. They had to… reschedule."

Emily felt a peculiar sensation in her stomach, a sensation akin to falling. The air around her seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. The casserole dish in Mrs. Henderson's hands looked suddenly enormous. Her carefully constructed fantasy dissolved like smoke.

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