surprised - Story 144703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you grew up in Seattle, huh?" Ben asked, tapping his pen against his teeth. He was trying to make small talk with his new intern, Chloe, while waiting for the coffee machine to finish brewing.

Chloe nodded, fiddling with a pen of her own. "Yep, spent all my summers at Camp Chinook."

Ben nearly choked on his own spit. Chinook? He hadn't heard that name in… well, a very long time. His body went still. He stared at her, the usual office chatter fading from his ears.

"Chinook?" he repeated, his voice sounding odd even to him. He remembered the lake, the counselors, the terrible camp songs. The memories flooded in, vivid and unexpected. His mind spun.

Chloe gave him a curious look. "Yeah, why?"

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