surprised - Story 144700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the final candidate list flashed on the projector, a wave of heat washed over Ben. His name was there, followed by Angela's. A slow, creeping disbelief spread through him. Angela? Always so casual, flitting from project to project, never really committing to anything. He, on the other hand, had poured his heart and soul into this company.

His breath hitched. He felt an unsettling hollowness in his gut. A strange buzzing filled his ears. His mind raced, desperately trying to make sense of the situation.

He wanted to run.

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