surprised - Story 144518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the coach’s office felt thick, stifling. This wasn't what Sam had been expecting at all. He’d visualized a different conversation, one filled with praise and encouragement. He was ready to fight for a starting position.

He felt a curious disconnect, as if he were observing himself from a distance. He stared at the trophy case, the polished wood reflecting the harsh fluorescent lights. He couldn't quite grasp the meaning of what he was hearing. The world seemed to have lost its focus. He started to speak, but the words caught in his throat.

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