surprised - Story 144677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is unexpected," Clara stated, more to herself than to Professor Bell, who was standing behind her. She had just seen the announcement posted on the faculty's website. Her stomach gave a lurch. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

She blinked rapidly, her vision blurring. She bit her lip, trying to prevent the rising panic. The comfortable familiarity of the lab, of the routine, of Professor Bell's steady presence, felt like it was dissolving before her eyes. The walls of the lab seemed to close in.

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