surprised - Story 144591 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Eleanor’s inbox, a stark white rectangle against the muted grey background. She’d refreshed the page countless times, each time a fresh, blossoming hope bloomed in her chest. Now, reading the terse lines, that bloom withered, leaving a hollow ache. Her hand trembled as she clicked the ‘reply’ button, composing a polite thank-you. The cursor blinked, mocking her. She stared at the screen, jaw slack, a feeling of vertigo washing over her. She’d rewritten the opening chapter of her novel a hundred times, and it wasn’t good enough?

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