surprised - Story 144474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s knock reverberated through David's small flat. He opened the door to find a bulky envelope, addressed to "Ms. Anya Petrova, or Current Resident." He knew no Anya Petrova. He hadn't seen mail for the former tenant, Sarah, in months.

He brought it inside, his pulse quickening. He wasn't usually one to pry, but there was a certain allure to the unknown. He ran a finger across the envelope, feeling the thickness of the paper.

He tore it open. Inside were several photographs, all of a young woman posing in exotic locations. Underneath the photographs, was a letter, addressed to Anya. His eyes widened as he scanned the first paragraph, a strange feeling blooming in his gut.

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