surprised - Story 144563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this a joke?" Amelia muttered under her breath, staring at the message on her laptop. “Double Birthday Bash! Sarah and Emily Invite you for drinks and dancing at The Velvet Room, 8 PM.” The same night as her planned movie marathon. Her mouth went dry.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard, opening Sarah's and Emily's contact information. They’d just confirmed their attendance at *her* event yesterday. Yesterday! A cold dread settled in her chest.

She leaned back in her chair, the sudden force of the movement jostling her. The anticipation for her night had evaporated, replaced by a strange hollowness. Her carefully curated list of classic films suddenly felt uninspired.

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