surprised - Story 144569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes widened, fixated on the flashing text notification. “Big Birthday Bash! Come celebrate with Olivia and friends at the club, 9pm!" The text from Olivia. The same Olivia who knew about the quiet, candlelit dinner she'd planned for the two of them that very night. A gasp escaped her.

She lowered her phone slowly, the image of Olivia's smiling face burned into her retinas. The restaurant reservation, the carefully selected wine, the intimate ambiance… It all felt hollow now.

A chill ran through her. The anticipation she'd felt for the past few weeks felt… replaced. Replaced with what? She wasn’t sure.

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