surprised - Story 144788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What?” James's voice cracked. He stared at the listing, the words blurring before his eyes. The house on Elm Street. He'd been looking at houses for sale, just browsing, and then... there it was. His old home.

He felt a cold wave wash over him. He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. He was rooted to the spot, his legs refusing to move. He felt like his stomach had suddenly dropped.

He needed to process this. He grabbed his coat, his hands shaking. He had to leave. He had to get out of the house.

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