surprised - Story 144610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photo album lay open on the table, its pages brittle with age. Emily peered at the image, her hand hovering over the picture. Her great-aunt, a renowned doctor, was known for her dedication to the field. Here, in the photograph, she was embracing another woman. They were staring out at the camera with loving looks.

Her mouth fell open. The blood drained from her face. This was a secret, hidden from her, from everyone.

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in around her. The familiar narrative of her family's past had just shattered into a million pieces.

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