surprised - Story 144546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, his eyes fixed on the YouTube channel: "Liam'sLife," a carefully crafted collection of vlogs detailing… well, everything. His son, Liam, usually reserved and quiet, was now a loud, flamboyant personality on camera. He'd never heard Liam's voice boom with such confidence.

A knot formed in Robert’s stomach. The videos were polished, funny, and deeply personal. He'd never understood how much time his son spent online. The room felt suddenly too small, suffocating. He recognized the background of the videos. His son's bedroom. He didn't know these walls as well as he thought.

He felt an unsettling disquiet. *How could he not have known?*

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