surprised - Story 144382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold knot formed in Leo's chest as he watched the two figures embrace outside the Italian restaurant. He’d been expecting Sarah, his girlfriend of six months, but the woman in the red dress was definitely not Sarah. His jaw dropped, and he felt his blood run cold. He'd poured his heart out to Sarah – or so he thought.

The woman in the red dress pulled away, laughing, and planted a kiss on the other man's cheek. Leo felt the color drain from his face. He fumbled for his phone, his fingers clumsy as he called Sarah's number. It went straight to voicemail.

His vision swam as he took a step backwards, bumping into a waiter carrying a tray of pasta. The pasta landed on the sidewalk. He muttered an apology, but he couldn't take his eyes off the couple. This was not the date night he had in mind.

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