surprised - Story 144707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Okay, next up is the team-building retreat. Any ideas?" The team lead asked.

"Well," a voice spoke up, "I always loved the team-building exercises we did at Camp Fireside." It was Maya, the newest recruit.

James, sitting across from her, paused. He sat up straight. A cold sensation prickled his skin. He didn't speak, but his stare became intensely focused. Camp Fireside?

Maya looked at him, and then she tilted her head. "Do you… do you know Fireside?"

James just nodded, unable to speak at first. The meeting room suddenly felt very small and tight. The casualness of the conversation seemed to mock him.

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