surprised - Story 144566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," I breathed, reading the email. "Karaoke and Cocktails at The Blue Moon! RSVP by Friday." It was from Chloe. My own gallery opening was that evening. My stomach clenched.

I stared at the computer screen, the words blurring slightly. I'd been pouring my heart and soul into this art show for months. Chloe knew how important it was to me. We’d discussed the date, the venue, everything!

I ran a hand through my hair, feeling suddenly drained. The vibrant colors of my artwork, which I had felt so proud of just an hour ago, seemed muted. A profound feeling of… disorientation took hold.

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