surprised - Story 144388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was bustling, filled with the murmur of conversations and the clinking of glasses. David looked across the table at the woman who had just introduced herself as 'Jessica', and felt a strange feeling wash over him. His date was late.

"Oh," Jessica said, a mischievous glint in her eyes, "you're with *him*?"

David felt his heart rate increase. He remembered his date, named Sarah, telling him she'd be here at this time. He was at a loss for words. His mind was scrambling to make sense of the situation, but he couldn't formulate a coherent thought.

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