surprised - Story 144435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist's gallery was filled with chattering people and a cacophony of musical instruments. Amelia navigated the crowd, admiring the vibrant canvases. Then she stopped, her breath hitching. The painting. Her painting. The colors, the brushstrokes, the very essence of the piece, were unmistakably hers.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She remembered submitting it to an online art competition. The winner’s gallery. She looked for the artist's name.

Her lips parted. She saw the man, standing nearby, laughing with admirers. He looked familiar. She had to walk away, the party's noise amplifying the pounding in her ears.

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