surprised - Story 144389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery. John had been so looking forward to this date with Laura. They’d been dating for months. Then, he saw her. Across the room, she was hugging another man, a man who, judging by the way they were looking at each other, was more than just a friend.

John's face flushed. He felt a sharp pang of pain in his chest. The smell of the bakery suddenly turned nauseating. He couldn’t move.

He stood frozen, his hand still holding the bouquet of flowers he had bought for Laura. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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