surprised - Story 144694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit me like a physical blow. My name. Then, Jessica’s. My stomach churned, a feeling that had nothing to do with the stale vending machine coffee I'd just consumed. I knew I'd been putting in the hours, staying late, going above and beyond. Jessica, well, she was known for her…connections.

My fingers tightened around the mouse, knuckles turning white. I stared at the email, the words starting to dance before my eyes. A wave of heat pulsed through my temples. Was this a test? A cruel joke? I felt a tremor in my hands.

“So,” Jessica’s voice, a little higher than usual, broke the silence. "This is…unexpected."

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