surprised - Story 144604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Maya breathed, staring at the pictures. Her great-aunt Eleanor, the prim and proper schoolteacher, was in these photos. The one in the photos was wearing a low-cut dress, dancing with a man who was leaning in.

Her jaw dropped. Her hands started to tremble. This didn't fit. Aunt Eleanor's reputation was spotless; she was an icon of the family. The picture didn't line up.

She slammed the photo back down on the table, feeling a strange mixture of confusion and disbelief. How could this be true? She needed a drink.

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