surprised - Story 144701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet blurred before Amelia's eyes. It was Mark, her cube-mate, who'd just let out a loud guffaw, causing her to jump. "Remember when the counselors made us eat that… that *stuff* at Camp Whippoorwill?" he asked, wiping a tear from his eye. Amelia froze. Whippoorwill? That couldn’t be right. Her heart began to thump a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She craned her neck to look at him, her throat suddenly dry.

"Whippoorwill?" she echoed, her voice barely above a whisper.

He nodded, still chuckling. "Yeah! The best summer ever. Though, the food..." He made a face. Amelia remembered the stench of the dining hall, the lumpy mystery meat. A shiver ran down her spine. The spreadsheet seemed miles away.

"You… you were there?" she stammered, the words escaping her before she could stop them. Her mind felt like a jumbled mess of memories and sudden connections.

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