surprised - Story 144430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone call came at an inconvenient moment. Sarah was in the middle of a video conference, presenting a crucial project. She muted the call, but the caller ID displayed the name of her old high school. Her eyes widened, a flicker of something she couldn't name crossing her face.

She excused herself from the meeting, retreating to the hallway. Her hand trembled as she answered the call. The voice on the other end, warm and friendly, was from her reunion committee. All the plans for the last week seemed to unravel. She felt a sudden need to be alone, to think, to hide.

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