surprised - Story 144646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And now for the exciting part!” The department head's voice boomed from the projector, but Sarah barely registered the words. She had been staring at the slide, the words “Strategic Partnership” swimming before her eyes.

Her stomach took a sudden drop. She leaned forward, the blood draining from her face. She felt an odd detachment from her surroundings, as though she were watching a play, unable to participate. The air in the room felt thick and heavy.

She pressed her lips together, her mind racing. "It's… it's over," she whispered, the thought echoing in her head. She glanced around the room, seeing her colleagues’ reactions, but feeling completely separate from them.

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