surprised - Story 144705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales team was brainstorming for the upcoming conference. "We could try a retro theme," David suggested, tossing out the idea. "Like, remember that camp we went to, Camp Starlight? With the matching shirts and all?"

Sarah's jaw dropped ever so slightly. She stared at him, her eyes wide. Her cheeks flushed a light pink, and her grip on her pen tightened. Starlight? That hadn't been mentioned in decades.

"Starlight?" she asked, her voice a little higher than usual.

David gave her a puzzled look. "Yeah, Starlight. You remember? The one with the weird crafts…" His voice trailed off as he took in her expression. The room seemed to grow smaller and stuffier all of a sudden.

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