surprised - Story 144372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always loved old houses, with their quirky angles and hidden potential. This one, a rambling Victorian, had definitely delivered. The discovery? A hidden room behind a tapestry in the dining room. Leo froze, his hand still on the dusty fabric.

A wave of… what was this?… washed over him. He felt suddenly lightheaded, as though the room itself had just exhaled. The air within the chamber was thick with the scent of dried herbs and something metallic.

“No way,” he breathed, his voice a hoarse whisper. His gaze darted around, taking in the small, stone-walled space and the strange symbols etched into the floor.

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