surprised - Story 144570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slowly lowered the champagne flute, his hand trembling slightly. "Surprise! Birthday Bonanza at the arcade!" the banner read. From Daniel. His own quiet stargazing party was planned for that evening. His jaw clenched.

He looked around the crowded room, his carefully curated playlist now sounding distant and irrelevant. He'd hand-picked each song for its celestial themes. He'd even set up a telescope.

He swallowed hard. He felt a profound sense of… being thrown off course. The constellations he’d been so eager to point out now seemed very far away, indeed.

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