surprised - Story 144556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I've been thinking," said Michael, his voice hesitant, "maybe we could get a dog." Emily almost choked on her water. The glass wobbled precariously in her hand. A dog? This was not the Michael she knew. This was not the man who complained about cleaning up after himself.

Her eyes widened, fixing on Michael's face. She struggled to process this sudden shift. The room around her blurred for a moment. Her usual calm demeanor was shattered. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips.

"A… a dog?" she repeated, her voice a near-whisper. The implication of the statement sent a shiver down her spine. The whole idea felt… incredibly unlikely.

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