surprised - Story 144439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer promised "World-Famous Spiced Nuts." Maya recognized the recipe instantly. The exact combination of cinnamon, cardamom, and cayenne, the secret her grandmother had always kept hidden. She had entered that competition two years ago.

Her palms began to sweat. Her legs felt weak. The flyer was plastered everywhere, in every corner store and bus stop.

She felt a rising tide of nausea. She crumpled the flyer in her hand, her knuckles turning white. She barely made it to the nearest bench to sit.

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