surprised - Story 144555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I want a parrot,” Leo announced, his voice firm. Sarah felt as though the floor had suddenly dropped from under her feet. Her hands flew up to cover her mouth, as if to physically prevent any further unexpected pronouncements from escaping.

Her eyes darted around the apartment, as if seeking an explanation for this absurd proposition. A parrot? She had envisioned a quiet, clutter-free life together. The thought of a squawking bird disrupting their peace was… unbelievable. She felt a disconcerting lightness in her chest.

“A…parrot?” she managed to stammer, her voice laced with confusion. Leo just smiled, a wide, expectant grin.

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