surprised - Story 144357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs groaned under her weight as Jessica ascended. She’d been preparing to put the house on the market, but she hadn’t even glanced up here yet. She was immediately overwhelmed by the smell of aged wood and forgotten memories.

Amongst the cobwebs and discarded furniture, she found it. A long, wooden box, bound with rusty metal straps. She heaved it open. Inside, meticulously arranged, were dozens of antique tools: chisels, saws, planes.

Jessica, not a very handy person, felt a strange feeling wash over her. It was a collection of tools; why would anyone leave such things?

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