surprised - Story 144780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was almost empty. Only the lawyer, my sister Amelia, and I remained. We had expected the family island. The tropical paradise had been a dream come true for both of us.

"The island," the lawyer said, his voice as monotonous as ever, "is left to Miss Amelia." A strange buzzing filled my ears. I felt a disconnect from my body, almost as though I was floating.

"And Mr. Oliver receives...the complete set of miniature spoon collection." I stared, my mouth hanging open, unable to even formulate a question.

Amelia’s lips parted, and she stared at me with an expression I couldn't decipher. The silence stretched, heavy and profound.

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