surprised - Story 144466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm considering parting with the dollhouse," his mother stated. His mother, who had meticulously restored the dollhouse, room by room, after finding it in a dusty attic. His mind blanked.

His fingers instinctively went to his chest. A sudden, sharp ache settled there. He struggled to find words. The dollhouse, with its tiny, perfect furnishings, was a symbol of her.

He could only stare at her, dumbfounded, as she continued, detailing the logistical realities of selling the cherished item. He felt disoriented, the comfortable familiarity of their home dissolving.

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