surprised - Story 144436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David leaned against the bar, nursing a beer. The jukebox blared a familiar tune, a song he had written years ago for his then-girlfriend. He hadn't released it, it was too personal. He’d never even recorded it properly.

He felt a deep discomfort settle in his gut. The singer's voice was different, but the lyrics, the melody, were his. A coldness settled on his skin. He didn’t know this singer.

He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. His head spun. He paid his tab and left, the song still echoing in his 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