surprised - Story 144666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thought that sprang to mind was, "This can't be real." Peter looked around, the tight space amplifying the feeling. He blinked, expecting it to be a dream. The situation, being stuck in an elevator with Denise, felt completely surreal. He didn't even *like* Denise.

He glanced at her. She was already fiddling with her phone, which was, of course, displaying “No Service.” He just shook his head, a small, involuntary movement. He'd imagined today going very differently. He cleared his throat.

He had a meeting with the CEO. This threw a wrench in everything. He knew he was going to be late. He pressed the emergency button, the red light mirroring the heat rising in his face. Three hours felt like an impossible sentence.

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