surprised - Story 144704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the break room. Emily reached for one, but then, she heard it. "Remember that time at Camp Greenlake when Mr. Henderson…?" It was Michael, the new accountant. Emily froze, her hand hovering in mid-air.

Greenlake? Her breath hitched. Her stomach gave a lurch. She slowly turned to face him, the cookie forgotten. Her heart began a frantic pace.

Michael looked up and met her gaze. He blinked, a flicker of something crossing his features. "Emily? You went to Greenlake too?"

"I… I did," she managed, her voice barely audible. All the familiar, mundane things around her suddenly felt strange, slightly out of focus.

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