surprised - Story 144557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words slammed into her like a physical blow. “We should get a reptile.” Alex stared, mouth agape, at Chloe. The woman who considered a houseplant high-maintenance wanted… a lizard? Or a snake? Or something equally… scaled.

She felt a dizzying sensation, like she was falling from a great height. Her internal monologue had screeched to a halt. The apartment seemed to tilt and sway. The very air around them crackled with an unfamiliar energy.

“A… reptile?” she managed, her voice barely audible. Chloe just shrugged, oblivious to the internal chaos she had unleashed.

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