surprised - Story 144786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That can't be right," Mark muttered, squinting at the screen. He was hunting for a new apartment, and the online search had pulled up… his childhood home. He’d lived there from birth until he went to college. It had been his safe place.

He felt a sudden tremor in his hands, making his coffee cup rattle against the desk. He hadn’t thought about the place in years, not really. Now, staring at the pictures, the memories washed over him with unexpected force.

He clicked on the virtual tour. His breath caught in his throat.

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