surprised - Story 144517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the athletic training room seemed to close in around Maria. She'd been working so hard; running, jumping, sweating until she collapsed. She'd put everything she had into this. Coach Davies's voice was firm, but Maria couldn't register the words. Her ears rang.

She blinked several times, trying to clear her vision. The room swam slightly. She felt a cold wave wash over her, leaving her suddenly numb. She felt like she was standing outside of herself, watching this scene unfold. How could this be happening?

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