surprised - Story 144676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the official university memo, his mouth agape. The words seemed to jump off the page and blur before his eyes. He blinked and rubbed them, willing the text to magically morph into something less devastating.

He had just been preparing the draft of his dissertation, thinking about the upcoming defense. Now all of it felt in jeopardy. He sat down abruptly on the edge of his bed, feeling the sudden weight of his body. He felt a wave of nausea. He took a deep breath, trying to calm his racing heart, his mind reeling.

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