surprised - Story 144698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news struck Alice like a punch to the gut. Her name, alongside Kevin's. Kevin, who always seemed to be out of the office, attending conferences and networking events. She rarely attended these things. She had been diligent, kept her head down, worked hard.

She felt a sudden urge to laugh, a hysterical bubble of sound that caught in her throat. She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles white. Her pulse throbbed in her ears.

Kevin walked by, offering a tight smile. "Well, this is quite the development, isn't it?"

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