surprised - Story 144440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the book, "The Ultimate Pasta Sauce." His sauce. Every herb, every simmering hour, every drop of olive oil was his. The cookbook lay open, the photograph of his sauce, his sauce, now on the cover.

A sense of weightlessness enveloped him. He remembered the cookbook editor, his friend. His friend. He must have sent the manuscript for editing.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in his silent apartment. He felt a profound sense of loss, a hollow ache where his pride used to be. He sat down and put his head in his hands.

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