surprised - Story 144565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The calendar screamed back at Clara. "Ben's Backyard BBQ!" the reminder blared. Her own intimate dinner party was scheduled for the same date. A strange quiet descended upon the apartment.

She reread the invitation. Ben, her close friend, whom she had discussed her party plans with, had sent the invite. She could almost taste the delicious food and drinks she had planned for her guests. Now? She felt a sense of… something akin to falling.

Her breath hitched. She went over the guest list in her head. Had anyone RSVP'd to her yet? She grabbed her phone, her fingers fumbling over the screen. The world tilted slightly.

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