surprised - Story 144387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived as Rachel was getting ready for her date. "Hey gorgeous, on my way!" It was from Michael, her boyfriend. She smiled. She went out to meet him.

The scene that followed, however, left her frozen. Michael arrived, all smiles, and then greeted a girl, kissing her on the cheek.

Rachel's mouth opened, but no words came out. Her cheeks felt hot. The carefully crafted narrative she'd built about her life with Michael shattered before her eyes. The streetlights seemed to dim.

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