surprised - Story 144538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But…how?” John’s voice cracked, the question barely audible. He felt like his stomach had fallen to his feet. The advisor's calm explanation, the legal jargon, all washed over him, incomprehensible.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture automatic, and he felt a coldness creep up his spine. The room started to spin. His mind raced, struggling to grasp the enormity of what was happening.

He thought of the sacrifices his parents had made, the dreams he had harbored. They felt impossibly distant, vanishing like vapor in the sun.

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