surprised - Story 144708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I hate this new office coffee," Chris was complaining to Brenda. "It reminds me of the swill they served at Camp Shadow Creek."

Brenda’s entire body went still. Her fork, halfway to her mouth, remained suspended in the air. Her eyes widened, and her jaw dropped just a little bit. Shadow Creek?

"Camp… Shadow Creek?" she asked, her voice almost a whisper.

Chris looked at her, his expression shifting from annoyance to… what? He blinked, the words he had just spoken seemingly hanging in the air. The cafeteria noises diminished.

"You… you went there too?" he asked, now sounding confused. The memory of the camp's musty bunkhouses flooded his senses.

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