surprised - Story 144373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The previous owners hadn't mentioned a hidden room. Honestly, Emily couldn't believe her eyes. Behind a section of the kitchen cabinets, she’d found a staircase leading downwards. She blinked.

Her heart leaped into her throat. This was so unlike anything she'd ever encountered. She carefully descended, her hand sliding along the damp, stone wall. The air grew colder, heavy with the smell of earth and something else she couldn’t quite identify.

"Well, now," she murmured, a nervous laugh escaping her lips as she surveyed the small, windowless cellar.

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