surprised - Story 144533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy in Amelia's hands, heavier than it should. She'd expected a celebratory letter. Instead, a terse, apologetic message had been sent. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage.

She blinked rapidly, trying to clear the image of the words from her vision. Her hands went numb, and she could barely hold the paper. Her entire body felt like it was shrinking in on itself.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table, focusing on the rough texture of the wood to ground herself. How could this have happened?

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