surprised - Story 144545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s not… that’s not her.” Emily's voice was a whisper, as she scrolled through the TikTok account, "Ava’sWorld." Ava was her sweet, shy daughter who spent most of her time reading. This TikTok was full of dance challenges, lip-sync videos, and, alarmingly, a growing number of followers.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. The girl on the screen was confident, even provocative. She was everything Emily believed her daughter was not. She felt like she'd tripped and fallen into an alternate reality.

She closed her eyes, trying to make sense of what she had seen. This was not the Ava she tucked into bed every night.

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