surprised - Story 144375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house had felt… off, from the moment David had walked through the door. Now, he knew why. He pulled a lever he hadn’t noticed before and with a grating sound, a bookshelf swung open. The reaction he experienced was unlike anything before.

He’d half-expected a dusty storage space, maybe some old tools. Instead, the hidden room contained… paintings. Beautiful, haunting paintings, stacked against the wall, depicting scenes he couldn’t place.

His breath caught in his throat. He felt like he'd stepped into a different world. It was impossible to process.

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