surprised - Story 144789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes narrowed as she scrolled through the website. Her face slowly drained of color. The house. The one she’d grown up in. The one her parents had always said would be in the family forever. Now… for sale.

A cold shiver ran through her, despite the warmth of the afternoon sun. She sat there completely frozen. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. A deep, unsettling ache began to blossom in her chest.

She reached for her phone, her hand trembling. She had to call her brother. She had to know what was happening.

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