surprised - Story 144608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was filled with the scent of old paper and the lingering fragrance of the past. Michael studied the photograph. His grandmother, known for her quiet strength, was smiling up at a man with a look of adoration that he’d never seen directed at his grandfather.

He felt a strange pressure in his ears, a buzzing. The image clashed so violently with the stories he had always known. Her tales, her memories… were they true?

He felt a sudden urge to get up and leave, to escape the confines of the room, to escape the unsettling truth that was laid bare before him.

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