surprised - Story 144513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on David’s forehead despite the chill in the gymnasium. He'd been looking forward to this season more than any other. Coach Thompson's words seemed to bounce in his skull, each syllable a painful blow. He was being cut.

His hands began to tremble. He traced the lines of the basketball in his lap, the familiar texture suddenly unfamiliar. He ran a hand through his hair, a futile gesture against the swirling confusion inside him. The world seemed to have tilted on its axis, and he was struggling to regain his balance. He'd always been on the team.

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