surprised - Story 144564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dude," Leo started, his voice cracking, as he read the text message. "Party at the bowling alley? You serious, man?" This was from Ethan. The very same Ethan who knew about Leo's meticulously planned escape room adventure for that night.

He slumped against the kitchen counter, the message vibrating in his hand. They’d been friends since kindergarten. He’d confided in Ethan about his escape room theme, his meticulously crafted clues, his desire for a unique celebration.

A bitter taste filled his mouth. He'd even bought those ridiculously oversized novelty socks for everyone. He tossed them aside. Ethan's text had completely thrown him. He felt… disoriented.

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