surprised - Story 144323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper tumbled from Marco's grasp, landing with a soft thud on the checkered floor. He couldn't believe his eyes. The critic, a woman he'd always admired, had eviscerated his latest menu. The review was brutal, describing his "Mediterranean Madness" as a "gastronomic train wreck." His face felt hot, his cheeks burning.

He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He slumped against the cool wall, trying to catch his breath. He had poured his heart into this restaurant. He had hoped for the best, dreamed of accolades. He didn’t understand what he was reading. He grabbed at his chest, his heart thudding a frantic rhythm against his ribs.

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