surprised - Story 144306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, his eyes darting back and forth across the screen. His stomach felt like it had dropped. He had always taken pride in his work ethic, in his loyalty. He'd put in the hours, sacrificed weekends, and gone the extra mile. And now, this. The junior designer, fresh out of art school, was being paid more than him. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to slam his fist on the desk. He took a deep breath, forcing himself to remain calm. His vision swam.

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