surprised - Story 144356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David hated attics, but it was his job. He was a house flipper. This house had potential, but the attic was a mess. He started to pull out boxes.

He pushed aside a pile of old newspapers and saw it. The glint of metal. Reaching for it, he pulled out an antique, framed mirror. The glass was clouded, but even so, the frame was intricately carved and beautiful.

He turned it over, examining the ornate back. There was a small, hidden compartment. He pried it open and peeked inside. A stack of old photographs. And some cash. His eyes widened.

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