surprised - Story 144470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was rendered speechless. The antique car, the one his father had painstakingly restored over years, was being advertised. His heart did a strange little flutter in his chest.

His gaze flicked from the ad on the screen to his father, who was standing beside him. The shock reverberated through him. He opened and closed his mouth, no sound emerging.

He felt a sudden, burning sensation behind his eyes. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He looked at the car, gleaming in the sunlight, now a stranger. He didn't know what to do.

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