surprised - Story 144554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on her laptop screen. "Re: Animal Shelter Adoption Event - Saturday!" Olivia stared at it, her fingers hovering over the mouse. Liam had sent it. Liam, the man who considered dust bunnies a personal affront.

Her breath hitched. A pet? Her head spun. She clicked on the email, her heart beginning to pound a staccato rhythm against her ribs. She was met with pictures of adorable puppies and kittens. She had to sit down. This felt… wrong. Violently, inexplicably wrong.

She reread the email, her gaze flitting across the screen again and again, searching for a hidden message, a joke. But there was nothing. It was just an invitation to adopt a pet. She slowly closed the laptop, a wave of bewilderment washing over her.

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