surprised - Story 144690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weightlifting gym was his sanctuary, the place where he tested his limits and pushed his body. He’d dedicated years to building strength. Now, as he watched his daughter, Ava, deadlifting a surprising amount of weight, he was momentarily frozen.

Ava, usually more interested in dance, grunted with effort as she completed a set. Her muscles strained, her face red. "Dad, how's my form?" she asked, her voice thick with exertion. Her father felt a warmth spread through his chest. He felt his hands begin to tingle.

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