surprised - Story 144328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The review, condemning his farm-to-table approach as “pretentious and pedestrian," lay discarded on the counter. His head throbbed. He felt a strange disconnection, as if he were watching the scene from afar. His chest felt heavy, as if he was carrying a boulder.

He stumbled away from the table, needing to get away from the hateful words. He found himself wandering through the garden he took such pride in. The tomatoes, the herbs, everything seemed to wilt under his gaze. The air around him felt thick, suffocating.

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