surprised - Story 144395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, a woman of sharp angles and even sharper eyes, watched as Thomas flipped through the pages of the old atlas. He’d found it in the donation bin, hoping to find some interesting maps. A small, crumpled piece of paper tumbled out, landing on the floor with a quiet rustle. He knelt down, picked it up, and stared at it, his face suddenly still, his eyes wide. It was a photograph, a sepia-toned image of a young man standing beside a vintage car.

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