surprised - Story 144469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her grandfather, a stoic man who never showed emotion, was selling his collection of vintage stamps. She felt as if the very foundations of her world were shifting. She was completely taken aback.

Her mouth fell open slightly, and she struggled to find her voice. It was his whole life, his passion. The air in the room felt thick.

She found herself fidgeting with a loose thread on her sweater, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she still had. The silence in the room was deafening. She felt a sharp, unexpected pang in her chest.

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