surprised - Story 144560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed with a resounding thud. "I found a kitten at the park," he said, his voice casual. "She's adorable, and I thought we should keep her." Daniel’s heart did a funny flip-flop in his chest. A kitten? Sarah?

His mind reeled, trying to reconcile this information with everything he thought he knew about his roommate. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to pace the room. The air in the apartment seemed to have thickened. It was as if a foreign object had suddenly been introduced into their carefully curated existence.

“You… you found a kitten?” he stammered, his voice tight with an emotion he couldn't quite name.

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