surprised - Story 144567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the card, a birthday invitation, in his trembling hands. “Bowling, Beer, and Bonfire! Come celebrate Max’s 30th!” It was for the same night as his dinner party. His meticulous plans crumbled at his feet.

He was momentarily frozen, his gaze fixed on the elegant script. He’d carefully chosen the restaurant, sent out custom invitations, and even arranged for a small band. He felt… adrift.

He closed his eyes for a moment. He hadn't told Max. Had he? Perhaps he'd forgotten. His head throbbed. He didn’t know how to navigate this.

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