surprised - Story 144766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look, honey, that’s where I planted the little pine tree,” Maria said to her husband, pointing. They were on a road trip, and she had insisted they make a detour. She wanted to show him her childhood home. She wanted him to understand this special place.

Her husband followed her gaze. And then her shoulders slumped, her expression crumpled. The tree was gone. No sign of it. Just a stark, empty space. She could feel a coldness spread through her.

“What…?” she stammered, her voice catching in her throat. Her carefully cultivated sense of herself was suddenly off-kilter. She couldn’t believe this.

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