surprised - Story 144304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you… sure?" Maria asked, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the HR representative, her brow furrowed in disbelief. The woman nodded, her expression neutral. Maria felt a wave of dizziness wash over her, a sudden vertigo. She had stayed late, worked overtime, consistently exceeded expectations. And this newcomer, fresh out of college, was making more? It was as if her entire career, her dedication, her unwavering commitment, were suddenly rendered insignificant. She sat back, feeling the sting of unshed tears in her eyes.

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