surprised - Story 144376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't real, this isn't real, this isn't…" Michael repeated the mantra in his head. The hidden room had revealed itself behind a loose brick in the fireplace. His hands were shaking.

He’d been exploring, looking for clues to the house’s history. Now, he felt as if the house itself were staring back at him. It was a small room, but it was filled with books. Every surface was covered in them. The pages were yellowed and brittle.

His mind was racing, trying to make sense of the sudden change in reality.

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