surprised - Story 144434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Maman’s Special Loaf" they called it. The sign was bright, colorful, and plastered across the bakery window. I gasped, pressing my face closer. It was my mother's recipe, the one she'd guarded so fiercely, the one she'd taught me.

A wave of confusion mixed with something akin to fury flooded through me. I didn't recognize the owner. The pastries looked almost exactly like hers, but not the same.

I stepped inside, my voice trembling. "Excuse me," I began, my hands clenching at my sides. "I... I think there's been a mistake."

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