surprised - Story 144383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and Maya clicked on it, a smile playing on her lips. It was from Ben, her boyfriend, confirming their dinner plans for Friday. Then, another email. From someone named "Jessica" with a subject line: "Dinner?"

Maya’s breath hitched. She opened the second email, her heart beginning to pound against her ribs. The content was innocuous enough – a simple invitation for dinner, followed by a slightly flirtatious closing. The problem? The email address was Ben's.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles white. She looked at the picture of Ben on her desk, the one she’d taken at the beach. How could he? She felt a sudden urge to scream.

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