surprised - Story 144501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tomatoes. They were finally ripening, plump and red, a testament to her hours spent weeding and watering. Mildred was kneeling, gently turning the first one over when a blur of white fur rocketed past. She yelped, nearly tumbling into the petunias. That blasted Samoyed! Again? Her jaw dropped.

She scrambled to her feet, hands flying to her chest. "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered, watching the dog gleefully circle her prize-winning squash. She hadn't seen him in days, and now, *this*!

Her eyes narrowed. She had a perfectly good, sturdy fence! This wasn't right.

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