surprised - Story 144343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The jumble of mismatched items at the yard sale barely registered with Maya. She was searching for a specific type of vintage enamelware. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted it: a familiar, threadbare shape.

Her breath caught in her throat. She knelt down, her fingers brushing the worn fabric. It was him. Mr. Snuggles. He looked smaller, somehow, his once vibrant red overalls faded to a pale pink.

"Wow," she murmured, unable to articulate the whirlwind of emotions suddenly swirling within her. The woman smiled. "Someone's been waiting for him. Ten dollars."

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