surprised - Story 144374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small house, nothing fancy. But Sarah had liked its simplicity. Then she found the hidden room. The feeling that hit her was instantaneous. It made her stumble backward.

The room was behind a false wall in the attic, accessible through a panel cleverly disguised as part of the chimney. Inside, a collection of antique dolls stared blankly from a series of shelves. Each had a porcelain face that looked frozen in time.

She swallowed hard. This was going to take some getting used to. Her skin prickled.

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