surprised - Story 144784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom!" Clara shrieked, the word escaping her without conscious thought. She stared at her phone screen, her jaw slack. The listing. The house. Her childhood home, up for sale. Just… like that.

She felt a rush of heat flood her cheeks. Her palms were clammy, and she ran a hand through her hair, tangling it. The kitchen, once a place of comfort, suddenly felt cold and alien.

She couldn’t believe it. This was something she never anticipated. She’d always assumed… well, she didn’t know what she'd assumed. She had to call her brother. Now.

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