surprised - Story 144787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Then Amelia saw it. Her house. Her first home. Listed for sale. She nearly dropped her phone. The familiar address felt like a physical blow.

Her mouth fell open, and she instinctively reached for her chest. It felt like something had been ripped away. The photos showed a house she no longer knew, a home that felt foreign.

She had to sit down. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips. She closed her eyes.

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