surprised - Story 144568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A pool party? Seriously?” I exclaimed, staring at the invite. “Jason's turning 21!” it announced, with a picture of laughing people. The same evening as my themed trivia night. My face burned with something.

I paced my living room, the invitation crushed in my hand. Jason *knew* about my trivia night. He'd even helped me brainstorm questions! We'd been trading ideas all week!

I felt a sudden lurch in my gut. The inflatable decorations I'd just bought now seemed ridiculous. My excitement had vanished. I felt… undone.

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