surprised - Story 144616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark had been casually scrolling through his messages when his mother's text flashed across his screen. “Can you do me a favor and say a few words at Dad's party?” His mouth dropped open. A few words? This felt so wrong.

He felt a rush of heat, then a sudden chill. Public speaking was his kryptonite. He preferred the shadows, avoiding attention. Now, he was expected to stand in the spotlight.

He stared at his phone, his thumb hovering over the reply button. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still possessed. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the hammering in his chest. A speech. It was all a bit much.

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