surprised - Story 144465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening after his father announced his intention. His jaw dropped. The antique, leather-bound book, the one with his grandfather's annotations, was to be sold.

He could feel the heat prickling at the back of his neck, spreading down his spine. His father, a man of few words, met his gaze, his eyes unreadable. A flush crept up his face.

The room, usually filled with the comforting scent of old paper and leather, now felt sterile, unfamiliar. He didn't know how to respond. He felt as though the world had shifted beneath his feet.

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