surprised - Story 144679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came during a crucial stage of her experiment. Maria answered, her voice brimming with focus. The words on the other end, from her advisor, Professor Olsen, shattered that concentration instantly. Her hand, previously steady on the pipette, began to tremble.

She lowered the phone slowly, her gaze fixed on the beaker in front of her. The solution inside seemed to shimmer and distort. Her research, her future, everything she’d worked for felt suddenly precarious, unstable. She exhaled slowly, trying to gather herself, to steady the shaky ground beneath her.

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