surprised - Story 144561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya checked her phone again, the screen reflecting her wide eyes. Liam, her best friend, had just texted: "Party at the beach, 7 pm! Bring your dancing shoes!" Her heart did a little flutter. She’d already spent weeks meticulously planning *her* rooftop party for that same night. A groan escaped her lips.

She paced her apartment, phone clutched tight. How could he? They’d talked about their birthdays, both scheduled for the same week. She’d assumed, wrongly, it turned out, that they'd be celebrating together. Her meticulously crafted theme, the caterer she’d booked, the invitations she’d sent… a wave of heat washed over her face.

The air felt suddenly thick, stuffy. She glanced at the decorations she’d already put up, now mocking her efforts. A knot formed in her stomach. What was she supposed to do now?

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